linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions

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Message-Id: <20150728142748.a756d7540ad5cdaf4c9efc9e@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2015 14:27:48 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>
Cc:	<tj@...nel.org>, <laijs@...fujitsu.com>, <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	<nhorman@...hat.com>, <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jes.sorensen@...hat.com>,
	<sparmaintainer@...sys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com> wrote:

> The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue
> being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message
> that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that
> happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the
> service partition is back again.
> 
> The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we
> get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume
> it when the problem clears.
> 
> We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
> from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>

Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as
they are received.   I presently have

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>


I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler
for the various trees.

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