[PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>]

Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather
than the deprecated kernel_threads.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

---

 kernel/stop_machine.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index dcfb5d7..2dd5a48 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -96,11 +97,14 @@ static int stop_machine(void)
 	stopmachine_state = STOPMACHINE_WAIT;
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
+		struct task_struct *tsk;
 		if (i == raw_smp_processor_id())
 			continue;
-		ret = kernel_thread(stopmachine, (void *)(long)i,CLONE_KERNEL);
-		if (ret < 0)
+		tsk = kthread_run(stopmachine, (void *)(long)i, "stopmachine");
+		if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(tsk);
 			break;
+		}
 		stopmachine_num_threads++;
 	}
 
-- 
1.3.3

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