Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules

Tejun Heo
2010-07-01T14:55:20Z

Hello,

On 07/01/2010 04:46 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> It might be a good idea to make the function take extra clone flags
>> but anyways once created cloned task can be treated the same way as
>> other kthreads, so nothing else needs to be changed.
>
> This makes kthread_stop() work. Otherwise the new thread is just
> the CLONE_VM child of the caller, and the caller is the user-mode
> task doing ioctl() ?

Hmmm, indeed. It makes the attribute inheritance work but circumvents
the whole reason there is kthreadd.

Thanks.

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tejun