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From: "Tiwei Bie" <tiwei.btw@antgroup.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	richard@nod.at, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] um: Add pthread-based helper support
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:07:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3df3cd48-e409-4cd6-8dae-d8062c84bf3d@antgroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91bdd4a1200950bf26d3cbe1a42cf1beb913a153.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On 2025/3/19 17:11, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 23:07 +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
>> +void os_kill_helper_thread(struct os_helper_thread *td)
>> +{
>> +	pthread_kill(td->handle, SIGKILL);
> 
> This ends up killing everything.
> 
[...]
> 
> Anyway, the issue is I cannot shut down, I get:
> 
> reboot: Power down
> Killed
> 
> and the terminal isn't cleaned up, i.e. shutdown code isn't run.

Whoops, I completely missed that.. :(

Thanks a lot for the test and analysis!

It seems that SIGKILL will always take the process down [1]. We cannot
use SIGKILL to kill helper threads anymore after switching to pthread.

[1] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/signal.c?h=v6.14-rc7#n1005

Regards,
Tiwei


  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-19 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-06 15:07 [PATCH v2 0/4] um: Make errno multi-thread safe Tiwei Bie
2025-03-06 15:07 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] um: Add pthread-based helper support Tiwei Bie
2025-03-18 13:06   ` Johannes Berg
2025-03-18 13:16     ` Johannes Berg
2025-03-18 14:55       ` Tiwei Bie
2025-03-25 16:31         ` Benjamin Berg
2025-03-26  6:30           ` Tiwei Bie
2025-03-18 15:00     ` Tiwei Bie
2025-03-19  9:11   ` Johannes Berg
2025-03-19 12:07     ` Tiwei Bie [this message]
2025-03-06 15:07 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] um: ubd: Switch to the pthread-based helper Tiwei Bie
2025-03-06 15:07 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] um: Switch to the pthread-based helper in sigio workaround Tiwei Bie
2025-03-06 15:07 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] um: Prohibit the VM_CLONE flag in run_helper_thread() Tiwei Bie

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