Re: [PATCH] kthreads: Fix startup synchronization boot crash

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 01 2009 - 10:00:39 EST



* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 09/01, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, this should work. But I _think_ we can make the better fix...
> > >
> > > I'll try to make the patch soon. Afaics we don't need
> > > kthreadd_task_init_done.
> >
> > ok.
>
> Just in case, the patch is ready. [...]

yes - that's roughly the cleanup i referred to in the commit log.

way too late for -rc8 though - the minimal fix i did _might_ be
eligible.

agreed?

Ingo
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