From: Kristis Makris <kristis.makris@asu.edu>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ham] Re: Gracefully killing kswapd, or any kernel thread
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:07:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126127233.2743.25.camel@syd.mkgnu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509071554190.4695@chaos.analogic.com>
> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be
There must be another way to do it. Perhaps one could have another
process effectively issue the contents of do_exit for the kswapd
task_struct ?
> CODED to do that! You can't do it externally although you can send
I'm clearly asking for the case where the thread wasn't coded to do
that.
> it a signal, after which it will spin forever....
kflushd and keventd don't seem to spin forever. I still haven't
determined what makes kswapd spin forever after it receives the signal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-07 19:41 Gracefully killing kswapd, or any kernel thread Kristis Makris
2005-09-07 20:08 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-07 21:07 ` Kristis Makris [this message]
2005-09-07 22:31 ` [ham] " Kyle Moffett
2005-09-07 22:36 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-09 18:51 ` Kristis Makris
2005-09-09 19:20 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-09 22:20 ` Kristis Makris
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