On 3/26/21 9:23 AM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: > Am 26.03.21 um 16:01 schrieb Jens Axboe: >> On 3/26/21 7:48 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >>> Jens, sorry, I got lost :/ >> >> Let's bring you back in :-) >> >>> 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... >> >> It's this very series. >> >>>> 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. >> >> Ah thanks. >> >>> 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. >> >> I do think the above is a no-op at this point, and we can probably just >> kill it. Let me double check, hopefully we can just remove this blocked >> part. > > Is this really correct to drop in your "kernel: stop masking signals in create_io_thread()" > commit? > > I don't assume signals wanted by userspace should potentially handled in an io_thread... > e.g. things set with fcntl(fd, F_SETSIG,) used together with F_SETLEASE? I guess we do actually need it, if we're not fiddling with wants_signal() for them. To quell Oleg's concerns, we can just move it to post dup_task_struct(), that should eliminate any race concerns there. -- Jens Axboe