Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:11:46 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/20] exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:43:58PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> In 2009 Oleg reworked[1] the kernel threads so that it is not >> necessary to call do_exit if you are not using kthread_stop(). Remove >> the explicit calls of do_exit and complete_and_exit (with a NULL >> completion) that were previously necessary. > > With this we should also be able to drop the export for do_exit.
Good point.
After this set of changes I don't see any calls of do_exit in drivers or other awkward places so that would make a good addition.
Eric
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