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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, security@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kthread: Make kthread_create() killable.
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:38:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130924163811.GA4036@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201309250017.HBG57846.VFOStOFFOLQJHM@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

On 09/25, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] kthread: make kthread_create() killable

The patch looks correct... although I'll try to reread it later ;)

Minor nit, since you are sending the new version anyway...

> +	if (unlikely(wait_for_completion_killable(&done))) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If I was SIGKILLed before kthreadd (or new kernel thread)
> +		 * calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this structure to
> +		 * that thread.
> +		 */
> +		if (xchg(&create->done, NULL))
> +			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

ENOMEM? Perhaps EINTR makes more sense.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201309132318.HEC05218.OtVOFOFMLJHFQS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2013-09-14 16:05 ` [PATCH] kthread: Make kthread_create() killable Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-14 23:46   ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-09-15 16:39     ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-16  0:53       ` [PATCH v2] " Tetsuo Handa
2013-09-23 23:07         ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-24 15:17           ` [PATCH v3] " Tetsuo Handa
2013-09-24 16:38             ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-09-25 21:05             ` David Rientjes
2013-09-26  2:59               ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-09-26 18:53                 ` David Rientjes
2013-09-28  7:18                   ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-09-30 21:57                     ` David Rientjes
2013-10-01 13:20                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-10-02  7:06                         ` David Rientjes
2013-10-02 13:44                           ` Tetsuo Handa
     [not found]     ` <201309152038.DDJ59271.OJMOHLFtSFOQVF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2013-09-15 16:55       ` [PATCH] " Oleg Nesterov
2013-09-16  7:25         ` [PATCH] coredump: Make startup of coredump to pipe killable Tetsuo Handa

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