On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:50:33PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> writes:
>
>
> > void *data;
> >
> > Opaque data for the thread's use.
>
> That requires to dynamically allocate and initialize kthread if you
> can have potentially multiple threads (= too much to write)
>
> I think it would be better to pass data as a separate argument.
> You can put the kthread and the data into a private structure on
> the stack, pass the address of it to kernel_thread and wait until the
> thread has read it using a completion.
Agreed. I will rework the patch to follow your suggestion.
Christoph
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