The patch titled Subject: mm/damon: remove unnecessary do_exit() from kdamond has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-damon-remove-unnecessary-do_exit-from-kdamond.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-damon-remove-unnecessary-do_exit-from-kdamond.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-damon-remove-unnecessary-do_exit-from-kdamond.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/damon: remove unnecessary do_exit() from kdamond Just return from the kthread function. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210927232421.17694-1-changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/damon/core.c~mm-damon-remove-unnecessary-do_exit-from-kdamond +++ a/mm/damon/core.c @@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ static int kdamond_fn(void *data) nr_running_ctxs--; mutex_unlock(&damon_lock); - do_exit(0); + return 0; } #include "core-test.h" _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx are mm-damon-remove-unnecessary-do_exit-from-kdamond.patch mm-damon-neednt-hold-kdamond_lock-to-print-pid-of-kdamond.patch