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.
next prev 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
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2003-12-31 18:02 Albert Cahalan
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