On Sun, 19 Apr 2015, Paul Goyette wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015, Antti Kantee wrote:Is there a reason for not providing kthread_destroy()? How difficult would it be to add it?The right thing to use is kthread_exit().Doesn't kthread_exit() need to be called from within the victim/target ?Would it be "reasonable" (for some value thereof) for the module cleanup routine to set a flag "please_exit" and then call kthread_join(). Then the target thread can check the flag and exit if set.
Actually, reading the code a bit closer, the flag is already set, and the cleanup routine waits gracefully for the thread to exit.
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