On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:33:58PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > master->kworker_task is set like this: > master->kworker_task = kthread_run(...) > so it just contains the status of the creation of the kthread, not if it was > killed, right? Hence we don't check if it was killed. > So Ricardo's patch prevents the stopping and destruction of the thread > if it failed to be _created_. OK, so that means that the description is very confusing then since it's talking about the issue being due to kthread_run being killed. > What if it is killed? I suppose the kthread API handles that internally, as it > could happen to any thread (e.g. OOM)? I'm not 100% clear on this to be honest. Since I'm at ELC I've not investigated fully yet and I'm mostly going on the patch descriptions here.
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