Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751836AbbG2Kea (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 06:34:30 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:39443 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbbG2Ke2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 06:34:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:34:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Andrew Morton cc: David Kershner , tj@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nhorman@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jes.sorensen@redhat.com, sparmaintainer@unisys.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kthread: Export kthread functions In-Reply-To: <20150728142748.a756d7540ad5cdaf4c9efc9e@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <1437777920-31156-1-git-send-email-david.kershner@unisys.com> <1438099141-8614-1-git-send-email-david.kershner@unisys.com> <20150728142748.a756d7540ad5cdaf4c9efc9e@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001,URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1592 Lines: 38 On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:59:01 -0400 David Kershner wrote: > > > The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue > > being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message > > that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that > > happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the > > service partition is back again. > > > > The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we > > get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume > > it when the problem clears. > > > > We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported > > from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Kershner > > Please accumulate the acked-by's and reviewed-by's in the changelog as > they are received. I presently have > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar > Acked-by: Neil Horman > Cc: Thomas Gleixner > Cc: Richard Weinberger > Cc: Tejun Heo > > > I'll scoot this into mainline probably this week to make life simpler > for the various trees. Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner -- 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/