Re: [PATCH v9 12/12] kthread: Better support freezable kthread workers

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:17:31PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags
> parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads.
> 
> It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn()
> but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually.
> 
> I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags
> parameter but I believe that we will want more flags
> in the future.
> 
> Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member
> in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the
> basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into
> kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge
> the two structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun