Re: please revert kthread from loop.c

Quoting Hugh Dickins (hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx):
This version has passed parallel runs of the following
script (on different devices of course), i.e.

But not good for me. Gets further e.g. 170 iterations,
but then hangs while kthread_stop waits for completion.

Confounded...

I haven't investigated further. Is there really any reason
to be messing with what has worked well for so long here?

Only because loop.c can be compiled as a module, and kernel_thread
is slated to have it's EXPORT_SYMBOL removed.

-serge
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