linux-kernel - Re: kGraft to -next [was: 00/21 kGraft]

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Message-ID: <20140702134721.00163886@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:47:21 +0100
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, pavel@....cz, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: kGraft to -next [was: 00/21 kGraft]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 08:30:02 -0400
Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:04:38PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 06/25/2014 01:05 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> ...
> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jirislaby/kgraft.git/log/?h=kgraft
> > 
> > Stephen,
> > 
> > may I ask you to add the kGraft tree to -next?
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jirislaby/kgraft.git#kgraft
> 
> Do we have consensus on the approach?  I personally really don't like
> the fact that it's adding another aspect to kthread management which
> is difficult to get right and nearly impossible to verify
> automatically.

Nor me. I don't see why it can't use the kernel freeze functionality ?

Alan
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