On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 09:52:21AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > When multiple kernel threads are created to cooperatively work on > a common task, we may need a convenient way to access data that are > specific to each kthread. > > The kthread_data() function fits this need. However, it was not > visible to kthreads started in a kernel module. To solve this problem, > the kthread_data() function is now exported allowing kthreads from > kernel modules to use it.
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