linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event

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Message-ID: <20120222175847.GA10943@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:58:47 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@...il.com>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] powerpc/eeh: remove
	eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()

On 02/22, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> daemonize() is only needed when a user-space task does kernel_thread().
>
> eeh_event_handler() thread is created by the worker kthread, and thus
> it doesn't need the soon-to-be-deprecated daemonize().

Forgot to mention... Please note that eeh_event_handler() is the last
caller of daemonize(), all other (ab)users are already fixed.

Oleg.

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