From: Kristis Makris <kristis.makris@asu.edu>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ham] Re: Gracefully killing kswapd, or any kernel thread
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:51:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126291900.2725.4.camel@syd.mkgnu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509071826180.4951@chaos.analogic.com>
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:36 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kristis Makris wrote:
>
> >> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be
I was able to make it call do_exit(). However, even if I recompile a
kernel to have kswapd issued a do_exit(), I still see from ps:
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 06:20 0:00 [kswapd
<defunct>]
Why isn't the task_struct for it gone ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-09 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-07 19:41 Gracefully killing kswapd, or any kernel thread Kristis Makris
2005-09-07 20:08 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-07 21:07 ` [ham] " Kristis Makris
2005-09-07 22:31 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-07 22:36 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-09 18:51 ` Kristis Makris [this message]
2005-09-09 19:20 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-09 22:20 ` Kristis Makris
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