Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> writes:
> void *data;
>
> Opaque data for the thread's use.
That requires to dynamically allocate and initialize kthread if you
can have potentially multiple threads (= too much to write)
I think it would be better to pass data as a separate argument.
You can put the kthread and the data into a private structure on
the stack, pass the address of it to kernel_thread and wait until the
thread has read it using a completion.
That would make a nicer API.
-Andi
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