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Subject: Re: [ham] Re: Gracefully killing kswapd, or any kernel thread
From: Kristis Makris <kristis.makris@asu.edu>
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On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:36 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kristis Makris wrote:
> 
> >> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be

I was able to make it call do_exit(). However, even if I recompile a
kernel to have kswapd issued a do_exit(), I still see from ps:

root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    06:20   0:00 [kswapd
<defunct>]

Why isn't the task_struct for it gone ?