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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: kernel_thread vs. zombie
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:49:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010322114927.14509@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)

Hi !

I'm changing the ADB bus reset & probe code to be in a kernel threads
that is created when a bus reset is triggered and that dies of it's own
death. 

Everything is fine when the bus reset is triggered during kernel init as
my thread is a child of init. However, when created as a result of an
ioctl, the thread becomes a zombie as it's a child of the process who
caused the ioctl (typically when entering sleep mode).

How do I force a kernel thread to always be a child of init and never
become a zombie ?

I do call daemonize at the beginning of the thread (as it won't do
anything with files, signals or whatever), but that doesn't seem to be enough.

Reagrds,
Ben.




             reply	other threads:[~2001-03-22 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-22 11:49 Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2001-03-22 14:32 ` kernel_thread vs. zombie Martin Frey
2001-03-22 15:07   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-03-22 17:21     ` Martin Frey
2001-03-22 18:47       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-03-22 19:50         ` Martin Frey
2001-03-22 23:33           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-03-23  0:04             ` Andrew Morton
2001-03-23  1:57               ` Martin Frey
2001-03-23  2:13                 ` Andrew Morton
2001-03-23  8:06                   ` Martin Frey

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