Jens, sorry, I got lost :/ On 03/25, Jens Axboe wrote: > > With IO threads accepting signals, including SIGSTOP, where can I find this change? Looks like I wasn't cc'ed... > unmask the > SIGSTOP signal from the default blocked mask. > > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > kernel/fork.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c > index d3171e8e88e5..d5a40552910f 100644 > --- a/kernel/fork.c > +++ b/kernel/fork.c > @@ -2435,7 +2435,7 @@ struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node) > tsk = copy_process(NULL, 0, node, &args); > if (!IS_ERR(tsk)) { > sigfillset(&tsk->blocked); > - sigdelsetmask(&tsk->blocked, sigmask(SIGKILL)); > + sigdelsetmask(&tsk->blocked, sigmask(SIGKILL)|sigmask(SIGSTOP)); siginitsetinv(blocked, sigmask(SIGKILL)|sigmask(SIGSTOP)) but this is minor. To remind, either way this is racy and can't really help. And if "IO threads accepting signals" then I don't understand why. Sorry, I must have missed something. Oleg.