linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live

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Message-ID: <CALCETrX82dBJo6GASnrPuuaCpaQw9r8X1sYWw_kCBaOMROoH=g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:23:14 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@...fitbricks.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread()

Ping?

What's the current status of this?  Do we need this for 4.9?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 10/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> I'll try to kill to_live_kthread() tomorrow, didn't have time to do this
>> today.
>
> Hmm. And this looks even simpler than I thought, or I am totally confused.
> Thomas, could you please review this series too?
>
> Chunming, Alex, I _think_ that drm/amdgpu should not use kthread_park(), but
> lets discuss this separately. It would be nice if you can confirm that 2/2
> can't break this code, even if I think "it obviously can't".
>
> Oleg.
>



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC