On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:14:49 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Seems sensible. Please consider renaming PF_KTHREAD in order to break > missed conversion sites. It's not wrong to use the thread. I just find using these helper functions a bit easier to review code. There's also some places that have special tests where it can't use the flag: kernel/sched/core.c: if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || kernel/sched/fair.c: if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work) kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: current->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_EXITING))) kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c: if (unlikely(task->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_EXITING))) Maybe we can have a: is_user_exiting_or_kthread() ? Note, for coccinelle patches, I would wait till the end of the merge window, run the scripts on what's in Linus's tree, run my tests, and then submit. This way it catches most of the conversions with the least amount of conflicts. -- Steve
