Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:34:07 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions |
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> wrote: > > > The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue > > being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message > > that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that > > happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the > > service partition is back again. > > > > The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we > > get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume > > it when the problem clears. > > > > We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported > > from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> > > Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as > they are received. I presently have > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > > > I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler > for the various trees.
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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