Re: [PATCH][RFC] kthread abstraction

[Andi Kleen]

Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]> writes:

	
>     void *data;
> 
> 	Opaque data for the thread's use.

That requires to dynamically allocate and initialize kthread if you
can have potentially multiple threads (= too much to write) 

I think it would be better to pass data as a separate argument.
You can put the kthread and the data into a private structure on
the stack, pass the address of it to kernel_thread and wait until the 
thread has read it using a completion. 

That would make a nicer API. 

-Andi