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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Wu Fei <at.wufei@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	arjan@infradead.org, jeremy@goop.org, mschmidt@redhat.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tj@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] kthreads: simplify !kthreadd_task logic, kill kthreadd_task_init_done
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:11:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18wgbc0g3.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909181504400.4950@localhost.localdomain> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri\, 18 Sep 2009 15\:06\:02 -0700 \(PDT\)")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> 
>> Not sure I understand... We don't have CLONE_PID, and kthreadd()
>> shouldn't have pid == 0 anyway.
>
> Ahh, we got rid of CLONE_PID a long time ago, and renamed it to 
> CLONE_IDLETASK (which was what it was used for).
>
> As to why pid == 0 wouldn't work, I don't know, but I'll take your word 
> for it.

It probably would work but it would not be visible in proc  Making a kernel
thread that actually does work seems undesirable.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-18 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-29 16:27 [PATCH] x86: detect stack protector for i386 builds on x86_64 Michal Schmidt
2009-08-30 13:39 ` Américo Wang
2009-08-30 18:43 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86: Detect " tip-bot for Michal Schmidt
2009-09-01 10:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 11:39     ` [PATCH] kthreads: Fix startup synchronization boot crash Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 13:04       ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-01 13:14         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 13:37           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-01 13:59             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 14:55               ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-01 15:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 16:00                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-02 13:06                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-01 16:52                 ` [PATCH 0/1] kthreads: simplify !kthreadd_task logic, kill kthreadd_task_init_done Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-01 16:53                   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-01 23:22                   ` [PATCH 0/1] " Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-02  9:13                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-04  7:37                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-18 16:32                         ` Wu Fei
2009-09-18 18:54                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-18 19:17                             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 21:12                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-18 21:15                                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-18 22:06                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-18 23:11                                   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-09-18 23:22                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-09-18 23:38                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-01 15:08             ` [PATCH] kthreads: Fix startup synchronization boot crash Américo Wang
2009-09-01 15:19               ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-08-31  6:21 ` [PATCH] x86: detect stack protector for i386 builds on x86_64 Tejun Heo

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