Use the kthread_ API instead of opencoding lots of hairy code for kernel thread creation and teardown. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h 2006-01-15 21:45:28.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h 2006-02-12 18:48:48.000000000 +0100 @@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ int maximum_num_physicals; int maximum_num_channels; struct fsa_dev_info *fsa_dev; - pid_t thread_pid; + struct task_struct *thread; int cardtype; /* @@ -1017,7 +1017,6 @@ * AIF thread states */ u32 aif_thread; - struct completion aif_completion; struct aac_adapter_info adapter_info; struct aac_supplement_adapter_info supplement_adapter_info; /* These are in adapter info but they are in the io flow so @@ -1797,7 +1796,7 @@ unsigned int aac_response_normal(struct aac_queue * q); unsigned int aac_command_normal(struct aac_queue * q); unsigned int aac_intr_normal(struct aac_dev * dev, u32 Index); -int aac_command_thread(struct aac_dev * dev); +int aac_command_thread(void *data); int aac_close_fib_context(struct aac_dev * dev, struct aac_fib_context *fibctx); int fib_adapter_complete(struct fib * fibptr, unsigned short size); struct aac_driver_ident* aac_get_driver_ident(int devtype); Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c 2005-12-27 18:30:30.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c 2006-02-12 18:48:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -433,7 +433,6 @@ } INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->fib_list); - init_completion(&dev->aif_completion); return dev; } Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c 2006-02-10 19:45:43.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c 2006-02-14 15:49:44.000000000 +0100 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #include <linux/completion.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <linux/delay.h> +#include <linux/kthread.h> #include <scsi/scsi_host.h> #include <scsi/scsi_device.h> #include <asm/semaphore.h> @@ -1043,8 +1044,9 @@ * more FIBs. */ -int aac_command_thread(struct aac_dev * dev) +int aac_command_thread(void *data) { + struct aac_dev *dev = data; struct hw_fib *hw_fib, *hw_newfib; struct fib *fib, *newfib; struct aac_fib_context *fibctx; @@ -1056,12 +1058,7 @@ */ if (dev->aif_thread) return -EINVAL; - /* - * Set up the name that will appear in 'ps' - * stored in task_struct.comm[16]. - */ - daemonize("aacraid"); - allow_signal(SIGKILL); + /* * Let the DPC know it has a place to send the AIF's to. */ @@ -1264,13 +1261,12 @@ spin_unlock_irqrestore(dev->queues->queue[HostNormCmdQueue].lock, flags); schedule(); - if(signal_pending(current)) + if (kthread_should_stop()) break; set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); } if (dev->queues) remove_wait_queue(&dev->queues->queue[HostNormCmdQueue].cmdready, &wait); dev->aif_thread = 0; - complete_and_exit(&dev->aif_completion, 0); return 0; } Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c 2006-01-15 21:45:28.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c 2006-02-14 15:49:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/delay.h> #include <linux/smp_lock.h> +#include <linux/kthread.h> #include <asm/semaphore.h> #include <scsi/scsi.h> @@ -822,10 +823,10 @@ /* * Start any kernel threads needed */ - aac->thread_pid = kernel_thread((int (*)(void *))aac_command_thread, - aac, 0); - if (aac->thread_pid < 0) { + aac->thread = kthread_run(aac_command_thread, aac, "aacraid"); + if (IS_ERR(aac->thread)) { printk(KERN_ERR "aacraid: Unable to create command thread.\n"); + error = PTR_ERR(aac->thread); goto out_deinit; } @@ -906,9 +907,7 @@ return 0; out_deinit: - kill_proc(aac->thread_pid, SIGKILL, 0); - wait_for_completion(&aac->aif_completion); - + kthread_stop(aac->thread); aac_send_shutdown(aac); aac_adapter_disable_int(aac); free_irq(pdev->irq, aac); @@ -942,8 +941,7 @@ scsi_remove_host(shost); - kill_proc(aac->thread_pid, SIGKILL, 0); - wait_for_completion(&aac->aif_completion); + kthread_stop(aac->thread); aac_send_shutdown(aac); aac_adapter_disable_int(aac); - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html