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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:35:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040104220836.7EAFF2C224@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jan 2004 20:42:26 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401032039350.2022-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401032039350.2022-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com> you write:
> > You can get around (2) by having a permenant parent "kthread" thread
> > which is a parent to all the kthreads (it'll get a SIGCHLD when
> > someone does "do_exit()").  But the implementation was pretty ugly,
> > since it involved having a communications mechanism with the kthread
> > parent, which means you have the global ktm_message-like-thing for
> > this...
> 
> You will lose in any case. What happens if the thread does do_exit() and 
> you do kthread_stop() after that?

That's illegal.  Either your thread exits, or you call kthread_stop().

> With the patch I posted to you, the kthread_stop() will simply miss the 
> lookup and return -ENOENT.

Or find some other random kthread which has reused the task struct and
kill that 8(

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-04 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-31  3:31 [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create Rusty Russell
2003-12-31  4:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-31  5:28   ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31  6:34     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-31  8:47       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-01 23:51       ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31  4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-31  5:18   ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31  5:06 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31  5:34   ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31  5:56     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31  6:27       ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-01  3:45         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-02  7:09           ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-02 16:58             ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03  3:05               ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-03  3:43                 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 11:47                   ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04  4:23                     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42                     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 19:00                   ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 23:53                     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04  2:34                     ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04  4:42                       ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04  4:55                         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04  9:35                         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-01-04 23:03                           ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05  4:09                             ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-05  5:06                               ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05  6:38                                 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-05  6:52                                   ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-07  7:00                                     ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-07  7:25                                       ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-08  0:33                                         ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:42                         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42                       ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:41                     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42                     ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:40                   ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:41                   ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:39                 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:39               ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:38             ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31  6:31       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2003-12-31  7:12         ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 23:25           ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-31 18:02 Albert Cahalan

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