On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:30:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:22 AM Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Looks fine to me too. I don't quite understand the usecase tho. It looks > > like all it's being used for is to tag some kthreads as belonging to the > > same group. Can't that be done with kthread_data()? > > I _think_ Bruce wants the signal handling unification too, because > nfsd wants to react to being shut down with signals. No, maybe kthread_data() might do the job. (I don't see how this would help with signal handling. But, I'm kind of ignorant of how signalling works.) --b.