On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:08:34PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 07/26, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > > > > I have been testing out a similar patch that uses kernel_thread() without CLONE_FILES > > flag rather than create_kthread() and then closing the files. > > !CLONE_FILES can't help. copy_files() does dup_fd() in this case. > The child still inherits the files. > > > Either version should be fine. > > I think neither version is fine ;) > > exit_files() is not enough too. How about the signals, As I said, signals are unimportant as we are using this thread to base a worker on - it sleeps uninterruptibly. > reparenting? That's actually a feature: it lets us find out which process owns the device using the thread by looking at the parent. > > I already forgot all details, probably I missed somethig. But it > seems to me that it is better to just export get/set affinity and > forget about all complications. > > Oleg. -- 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
