Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:35:50 +0530 | From | Srivatsa Vaddagiri <> | Subject | Re: keventd_create_kthread |
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:12:19AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote: > However, if that wake_up_process() comes too early we'll just flip the new > thread out of TASK_INTERUPTIBLE into TASK_RUNNING and the schedule() in > kthread() will fall straight through. So perhaps we can simply remove the > wait_task_inactive()?
If wake_up_process() comes too early (when the target task is still in TASK_RUNNING state), then won't wake_up_process() be a no-op? In which case, the target kthread will miss a wake-up event (kthread_start/kthread_stop)?
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