[patch 1/2] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()

akpm at linux-foundation.org akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Mar 29 09:20:57 EST 2012


From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Subject: powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()

daemonize() is only needed when a user-space task does kernel_thread().

eeh_event_handler() thread is created by the worker kthread, and thus it
doesn't need the soon-to-be-deprecated daemonize().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c~powerpc-eeh-remove-eeh_event_handler-daemonize arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c~powerpc-eeh-remove-eeh_event_handler-daemonize
+++ a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int eeh_event_handler(void * dumm
 	struct eeh_event *event;
 	struct eeh_dev *edev;
 
-	daemonize("eehd");
+	set_task_comm(current, "eehd");
 	set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&eeh_eventlist_lock, flags);
_


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