NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There is a tiny race when de-registering an MD thread, in that the > thread could disappear before it is set a SIGKILL, causing > send_sig to have problems. > This is most easily closed by holding tasklist_lock between > enabling the thread to exit (setting ->run to NULL) and telling > it to exit. That code all seems a bit crufty to me. Sometime it would be good to stop using signals in-kernel and to use the kthread API for thread startup and shutdown. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
