[patch 1/2] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 29 10:22:48 EST 2012
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 15:20 -0700, akpm at linux-foundation.org wrote:
> 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().
For some reason I thought you were sending that directly to Linus, but
looking at your CC list that's obviously not the case :-) I'll send
them myself.
Cheers,
Ben.
> 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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