linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/kthread.h: remove unused macros

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Message-ID: <YjBZ3Ir3H7IM9Pfj@alley>
Date:   Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:18:20 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@...du.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/kthread.h: remove unused macros

On Mon 2022-03-14 15:53:42, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Ever since these macros were introduced in commit b56c0d8937e6
> ("kthread: implement kthread_worker"), there has been precisely one
> user (commit 4d115420707a, "NVMe: Async IO queue deletion"), and that
> user went away in 2016 with db3cbfff5bcc ("NVMe: IO queue deletion
> re-write").
> 
> Apart from being unused, these macros are also awkward to use (which
> may contribute to them not being used): Having a way to statically (or
> on-stack) allocating the storage for the struct kthread_worker itself
> doesn't help much, since obviously one needs to have some code for
> actually _spawning_ the worker thread, which must have error
> checking. And these days we have the kthread_create_worker() interface
> which both allocates the struct kthread_worker and spawns the kthread.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

Best Regards,
Petr