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Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions

From	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions
Date	2015-07-28 23:30 +0200
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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.

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Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-28 23:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 05:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-07-31 06:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 04:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> - 2015-08-03 04:50 +0200

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