On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:17:31PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags > parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads. > > It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn() > but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually. > > I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags > parameter but I believe that we will want more flags > in the future. > > Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member > in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the > basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into > kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge > the two structures. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
