Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> +/*
> + * TODO: kill it and use to_kthread(). But we still need the users
> + * like kthread_stop() which has to sync with the exiting kthread.
> + */
>  static struct kthread *to_live_kthread(struct task_struct *k)

Now that the kthread struct is no longer on the stack, are the
try_get_task_stack() and its corresponding put_task_stack()'s still
needed?

-- 
Josh