Re: [PATCH RESEND] kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads

From: Snild Dolkow
Date: Mon Jul 23 2018 - 10:23:14 EST


On 07/23/2018 03:55 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Can you add a comment here stating something to the affect of:
> /* task is now visible to other tasks */
>
> -- Steve
Sure, but isn't that a bit misleading? It will have been visible since
some unknown point in time between waking up kthreadd and the return of
wait_for_completion(); we're not the ones making it visible.

//Snild