From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues (take 2)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:21:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070411122124.a7ce6705.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1hcrmsr4g.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:27:59 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> + strcpy(tsk->comm, "kthreadd");
We have this dopey set_task_comm() thing which is there to avoid
races when userspace is looking at this task's name via /proc.
It obviously doesn't matter in this case, but I suppose one should
set a good example. I'll make that change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 18:51 [PATCH 2/3] make kernel threads invisible to /sbin/init Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-10 23:16 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-04-11 3:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 3:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 11:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 5:44 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 7:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 10:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11 11:21 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-11 11:48 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 13:31 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-04-11 14:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 19:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11 14:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-11 18:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 18:27 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues (take 2) Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 18:49 ` [PATCH] Change reparent_to_init to reparent_to_kthreadd Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 19:21 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-11 19:28 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues (take 2) Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 19:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 19:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 12:04 ` [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 16:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-11 13:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-11 16:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
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