On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:53 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On 07/01/2010 04:46 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > >> It might be a good idea to make the function take extra clone flags > >> but anyways once created cloned task can be treated the same way as > >> other kthreads, so nothing else needs to be changed. > > > > This makes kthread_stop() work. Otherwise the new thread is just > > the CLONE_VM child of the caller, and the caller is the user-mode > > task doing ioctl() ? > > Hmmm, indeed. It makes the attribute inheritance work but circumvents > the whole reason there is kthreadd. I thought the whole reason there was threadd was to avoid the inheritance? So avoiding the avoiding of inheritance seems like the goal here, no? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
