Re: [PATCH 0/1] kthreads: simplify !kthreadd_task logic, kill kthreadd_task_init_done

[ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> 
>> Not sure I understand... We don't have CLONE_PID, and kthreadd()
>> shouldn't have pid == 0 anyway.
>
> Ahh, we got rid of CLONE_PID a long time ago, and renamed it to 
> CLONE_IDLETASK (which was what it was used for).
>
> As to why pid == 0 wouldn't work, I don't know, but I'll take your word 
> for it.

It probably would work but it would not be visible in proc  Making a kernel
thread that actually does work seems undesirable.

Eric
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