On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use TASK_IDLE instead.
Hmm it seems in general this needs to be done kernel-wide. This kthread abuse of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE seems to be a common thing. There's also the users doing schedule_timeout_interruptible()... Thanks, Davidlohr
