linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/9] fork: pass worker_flags to copy

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWeToGusZvg+7x_iwa9vCk3Y7ByDADw70JVZ5AZoVdR0g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:18:18 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
Cc:     hdanton@...a.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        "Stefano Garzarella --cc virtualization @ lists . linux-foundation . org" 
        <sgarzare@...hat.com>, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/9] fork: pass worker_flags to copy_thread

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:55 PM Mike Christie
<michael.christie@...cle.com> wrote:
> We need to break up PF_IO_WORKER into the parts that are used for
> scheduling and signal handling and the part that tells copy_thread to
> treat it as a special type of thread during setup. This patch passes the
> worker_flags to copy_thread, so in the next patch we can add new worker
> flags that function can see.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>

>  arch/m68k/kernel/process.c       | 2 +-

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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