Sorry, I didn't read these emails, and I never looked at this code...
Can't understand what are you talking about but a minor nit anyway ;)

On 09/04, Petr Mladek wrote:

+	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 	if (!kthread_should_stop())
 		wait_to_die();

I bet this wait_to_die() can die, consumer/producer can simply exit.

Just you need get_task_struct() after kthread_create(), and put_task_struct()
after kthread_stop().

Oleg.

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