Re: [PATCH 3/6] NLM: Initialize completion variable in lockd_up

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:33:15PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> lockd_start_done is a global var that can be reused if lockd is
> restarted, but it's never reinitialized. On all but the first use,
> wait_for_completion isn't actually waiting on it since it has
> already completed once.

I don't think we'll need lockd_start_done anymore after the kthread
conversion.  When kthread_run returns the thread it created is
guaranteed to have run until it scheduled away.

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