From 1fbe4b46caca5b01b070af93d513031ffbcc480c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 21:42:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net: pktgen: kill the "Wait for kthread_stop" code in pktgen_thread_worker() pktgen_thread_worker() doesn't need to wait for kthread_stop(), it can simply exit. Just pktgen_create_thread() and pg_net_exit() should do get_task_struct()/put_task_struct(). kthread_stop(dead_thread) is fine. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/pktgen.c | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index 41489e3c69af..1ebdf1c0d118 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -3571,15 +3571,6 @@ static int pktgen_thread_worker(void *arg) pr_debug("%s removing thread\n", t->tsk->comm); pktgen_rem_thread(t); - /* Wait for kthread_stop */ - for (;;) { - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - if (kthread_should_stop()) - break; - schedule(); - } - __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - return 0; } @@ -3771,6 +3762,7 @@ static int __net_init pktgen_create_thread(int cpu, struct pktgen_net *pn) } t->net = pn; + get_task_struct(p); wake_up_process(p); wait_for_completion(&t->start_done); @@ -3893,6 +3885,7 @@ static void __net_exit pg_net_exit(struct net *net) t = list_entry(q, struct pktgen_thread, th_list); list_del(&t->th_list); kthread_stop(t->tsk); + put_task_struct(t->tsk); kfree(t); } -- 2.11.0