Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932249AbbDNVcu (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:32:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43821 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932102AbbDNVcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:32:36 -0400 From: Bandan Das To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] vhost: use kthread_run macro Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:32:34 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1715 Lines: 59 Code Cleanup, kthread_run is a convenient wrapper around kthread_create() that even wakes up the process for us. Use it and remove no longer needed temp task_struct variable. Signed-off-by: Bandan Das --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index 2ee2826..9ac66f7 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -366,7 +366,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dev_has_owner); /* Caller should have device mutex */ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev) { - struct task_struct *worker; int err; /* Is there an owner already? */ @@ -377,15 +376,12 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev) /* No owner, become one */ dev->mm = get_task_mm(current); - worker = kthread_create(vhost_worker, dev, "vhost-%d", current->pid); - if (IS_ERR(worker)) { - err = PTR_ERR(worker); + dev->worker = kthread_run(vhost_worker, dev, "vhost-%d", current->pid); + if (IS_ERR(dev->worker)) { + err = PTR_ERR(dev->worker); goto err_worker; } - dev->worker = worker; - wake_up_process(worker); /* avoid contributing to loadavg */ - err = vhost_attach_cgroups(dev); if (err) goto err_cgroup; @@ -396,7 +392,7 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev) return 0; err_cgroup: - kthread_stop(worker); + kthread_stop(dev->worker); dev->worker = NULL; err_worker: if (dev->mm) -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/