Re: [PATCH 0/5] improve handling of errors returned by kthread_park()

2015-10-12 Thread Don Zickus
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:44:07PM +0200, Ulrich Obergfell wrote: > The original watchdog_park_threads() function that was introduced by > commit 81a4beef91ba4a9e8ad6054ca9933dff7e25ff28 takes a very simple > approach to handle errors returned by kthread_park(): It attempts to > roll back all watch

Re: [PATCH 0/5] improve handling of errors returned by kthread_park()

2015-09-30 Thread Ulrich Obergfell
ke error returns from kthread_park() in order to test the patches. Regards, Uli - Original Message - From: "Andrew Morton" To: "Ulrich Obergfell" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dzic...@redhat.com, atom...@redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 1:30:36 AM Sub

Re: [PATCH 0/5] improve handling of errors returned by kthread_park()

2015-09-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:44:07 +0200 Ulrich Obergfell wrote: > The original watchdog_park_threads() function that was introduced by > commit 81a4beef91ba4a9e8ad6054ca9933dff7e25ff28 takes a very simple > approach to handle errors returned by kthread_park(): It attempts to > roll back all watchdog t

[PATCH 0/5] improve handling of errors returned by kthread_park()

2015-09-28 Thread Ulrich Obergfell
The original watchdog_park_threads() function that was introduced by commit 81a4beef91ba4a9e8ad6054ca9933dff7e25ff28 takes a very simple approach to handle errors returned by kthread_park(): It attempts to roll back all watchdog threads to the unparked state. However, this may be undesired behaviou