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H A Dloop.cdiff 09c0dc68625c06f5b1e786aad0d5369b592179e6 Mon Jun 26 13:55:42 CDT 2006 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Revert "[PATCH] kthread: update loop.c to use kthread"

This reverts commit c7b2eff059fcc2d1b7085ee3d84b79fd657a537b.

Hugh Dickins explains:

"It seems too little tested: "losetup -d /dev/loop0" fails with
EINVAL because nothing sets lo_thread; but even when you patch
loop_thread() to set lo->lo_thread = current, it can't survive
more than a few dozen iterations of the loop below (with a tmpfs
mounted on /tst):

j=0
cp /dev/zero /tst
while :
do
let j=j+1
echo "Doing pass $j"
losetup /dev/loop0 /tst/zero
mkfs -t ext2 -b 1024 /dev/loop0 >/dev/null 2>&1
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt
umount /mnt
losetup -d /dev/loop0
done

it collapses with failed ioctl then BUG_ON(!bio).

I think the original lo_done completion was more subtle and safe
than the kthread conversion has allowed for."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>