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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2021-11-05 13:48:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-06 13:30:46 -0700
commit0f91d13366a402420bf98eaaf393db03946c13e0 (patch)
treebc10841661e60314e68754fbda0ffb41353509c4 /include
parent0d16cfd46b48689de6a5ca594bc1a68105f6658b (diff)
mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
A kernel thread can exit gracefully with kthread_stop(). So we don't need a new flag 'kdamond_stop'. And to make sure the task struct is not freed when accessing it, get reference to it before termination. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027130517.4404-1-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/damon.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/damon.h b/include/linux/damon.h
index fa7f32614b65..321de9d72360 100644
--- a/include/linux/damon.h
+++ b/include/linux/damon.h
@@ -381,7 +381,6 @@ struct damon_ctx {
/* public: */
struct task_struct *kdamond;
- bool kdamond_stop;
struct mutex kdamond_lock;
struct damon_primitive primitive;