Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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