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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: have tcp_recvmsg() check kthread_should_stop() and treat it as if it were signalled
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:08:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070628170825.GA549@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a781481a0706280844l7eec6067gd576d88619463fe9@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/28, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> Second, we *must* break that tcp_recvmsg() inside the kthread's
> main loop, of course! We want it stopped, after all, and if we don't
> make it "break" out of that function, the kthread _will_never_exit_.

In that case this kthread is buggy. We have sock->sk_rcvtimeo.

> Please note that this
> whole thing is about functions that will _simply_*never*_exit_ever_
> _unless_ given a signal.

ditto. kthread should not do this.

OK, I suggest to stop this thread. I don't claim you are wrong, just
we think differently ;)

> >This is what I can't understand completely. Why should we check SIGKILL
> >or signal_pending() in addition to kthread_stop_info.k, what is the point?
>
> ... so kthread_stop_info will go away too.

it should go away regardless, we have patches. Still I see no point
to check signal_pending() in kthread_stop().

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-28 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070605152340.f09fa6f2.jlayton@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <20070606085550.GA7351@infradead.org>
2007-06-08 16:35   ` [PATCH] RFC: have tcp_recvmsg() check kthread_should_stop() and treat it as if it were signalled Jeff Layton
2007-06-09  1:30     ` Herbert Xu
2007-06-09 11:08       ` Jeff Layton
2007-06-25 19:41         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-25 19:52           ` Jeff Layton
2007-06-25 22:09             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-26  0:46               ` Jeff Layton
2007-06-26 11:54           ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-26 22:53             ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-27  1:29               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-27 12:24               ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-28  0:44                 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-28 14:12                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-06-28 15:44                     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-28 16:19                       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-28 16:24                       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-28 17:08                       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2007-06-28 18:41                         ` Jeff Layton
2007-06-28 19:22                         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-21 14:35   ` [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make cifsd (more) signal-safe Jeff Layton

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