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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:31:34 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: siox: don't create a thread without starting it
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:21:21PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > > So I wonder where the real problem is and how it can be fixed.
> > 
> > Without the first wakeup, the kthread will not run the provided function
> > and we can therefore argue the creation is incomplete. I really feel you
> > should just wake the thing up to land in your own wait-condition-loop.

> Is this an ack for the RFC patch you replied to?

Yes,

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>