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From:   Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:43:40 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Rename user_mode_thread() to kmuser_thread()
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc:     Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Hi, Luis,

On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 7:25=E2=80=AFAM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>=
 wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 04:55:33PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > Friendly ping?
>
> You want to cc the folks who Nacked your patch. Until then, this
> probably can't go further.
Thank you very much. Eric and Andrew are already in the CC list, so
add Thomas now.

My brain is a little old-fashioned so I insisted that "a thread
without mm_struct should be a kernel thread" in the previous patch.
Unfortunately this makes Eric and Thomas unhappy, I'm very sorry for
that.

During the discussion of the previous patch I know I made some
mistakes about some basic concepts, but I also found the name
"user_mode_thread()" is somewhat confusing. I think rename it to
kmuser_thread() is better, because:
1, it identify init and umh as user threads;
2, it points out that init and umh are special user threads that run
in kernel mode before loading a user program.

Sorry for my rudeness again.

Huacai
>
>   Luis