Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Workqueue freezer support.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 21 2005 - 10:48:00 EST



* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > +struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
> > + void *data,
> > + const char namefmt[], ...)
> > +{
> > + char result[TASK_COMM_LEN];
> > +
> > + va_list args;
> > + va_start(args, namefmt);
> > + vsnprintf(result, TASK_COMM_LEN, namefmt, args);
> > + va_end(args);
> > + return _kthread_create(threadfn, data, 0, result);
> > +}
> > +
>
> This is slightly ugly and uses lot of stack. Otherwise patch looks
> okay. If you want me to apply it, be sure to put me into To: or at
> least Cc:. Or perhaps you want to just mail it to akpm, noting that I
> acked it (if you do something with the char result[] :-).

TASK_COMM_LEN is only 16 bytes so it's not that bad.

Ingo
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