Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 09:43:09PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> The PS3 notification interrupt and kthread use a hacked up completion to
>> communicate. Since we're wanting to change the completion implementation and
>> this is abuse anyway, replace it with a simple rcuwait since there is only ever
>> the one waiter.
>>
>> AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads
>> cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use
>> TASK_IDLE instead.
>
> I think the right fix here is to jut convert the thing to a threaded
> interrupt handler and kill off the stupid kthread.
That'd be a major surgery.
> But I wonder how alive the whole PS3 support is to start with..
There seem to be a few enthusiast left which have a Other-OS capable PS3
Thanks,
tglx
