linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't looking for a task in create

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Message-ID: <20090119190331.GA24852@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:03:31 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread()

On 01/19, Vitaliy Gusev wrote:
>
> Let a process fill result, as 'current' is the same
> in all pid namespaces.

This looks like a very nice patch to me.

But I don't understand the changelog. Afaics, this has nothing to do
with namespaces. We can remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns()
kthread() can just use "current" to get the same result.

Could you please improve the changelog and re-send?

Oleg.

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