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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:43:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161025154301.GA12015@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161025140333.GB4326@redhat.com>

On 10/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 10/25, Roman Pen wrote:
> >
> > This patch avoids allocation of kthread structure on a stack, and simply
> > uses kmalloc.
>
> Oh. I didn't even read this patch, but I have to admit I personally do not
> like it. I can be wrong, but imo this is the step to the wrong direction.

And after I tried to actually read it I dislike it even more, sorry Roman.
Starting from the fact it moves kthread_create_info into struct kthread.

> struct kthread is already bloated, we should not bloat it more. Instead
> we should kill it. And to_kthread() too, at least in its current form.

Yes, but even if we can't or do not want to do this, even if we want to
kmalloc struct kthread, I really think it should not be refcounted
separately from task_struct.

something like the patch in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146715459127804

Either way to_live_kthread() must go away. Currently we can't avoid it
because we abuse vfork_done, but as I already said we no longer need this.

Oleg.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-25 11:05 [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc Roman Pen
2016-10-25 14:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 15:43   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2016-10-25 16:08     ` Roman Penyaev
2016-10-25 16:17       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 16:52     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-26 14:14       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-26 14:57         ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-26 15:51           ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-26 18:31             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 16:11               ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: make struct kthread kmalloc'ed Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 16:11                 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 18:48                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 16:12                 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 18:49                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 18:44                 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: make struct kthread kmalloc'ed Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 20:07                 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread() Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-31 20:07                   ` [PATCH 1/2] kthread: don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_stop() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-09  7:58                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 20:08                   ` [PATCH 2/2] kthread: don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-09  8:45                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-09 17:27                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-10 17:19                         ` [PATCH 0/1] kthread: don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-10 17:20                           ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-14 11:12                             ` Petr Mladek
2016-11-14 11:09                           ` [PATCH 0/1] " Petr Mladek
2016-11-07 18:23                   ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread() Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-26 16:13         ` [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-27  2:56         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-10-27 13:10           ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 15:46   ` Roman Penyaev

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