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authorDmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>2008-04-29 00:59:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-29 08:06:04 -0700
commitcbd9b67bd3883dff0ef4b8ec9229d315a9ba38f0 (patch)
tree38a59233e8ec529980741dac371dcb9587d0a098 /kernel
parenta2d416dcc92e576d0e339efd641bd3d8ee2bfb4d (diff)
kthread: call wake_up_process() without the lock being held
From the POV of synchronization, there should be no need to call wake_up_process() with the 'kthread_create_lock' being held. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 92cf6930ab51..ac72eea48339 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
list_add_tail(&create.list, &kthread_create_list);
- wake_up_process(kthreadd_task);
spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
+ wake_up_process(kthreadd_task);
wait_for_completion(&create.done);
if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {