Re: How to make mmap'ed kernel buffer non-cacheable

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

You can do down_interruptible to make the down interruptible.

Bhuvan Kumar MITTAL wrote:
> I'll rephrase the problem as follow:
> 
> I have a userthread which makes ioctl calls to the kernel and once it reaches inside the kernel it waits on a semaphore. It then does some work inside the kernel and continuously keeps looping between the kernel and user space in an endless while loop. 
> 
> I want to kill that thread from another user thread while the former is waiting on a semaphore in kernel (which it will never get) coz I want a clean exit of my driver. Please suggest me a way. I did try the use of pthread_cancel, but that is possible only if the target thread is executing in user space and making use of a pthread_testcancel call (with cancelability enabled ofcourse). 
> 
> Kindly suggest something. 
> 
> 
>>In continuation to this, I have another query:
>>As mentioned above, If there is a kernel task waiting on a semaphore (maybe even in hung state) and I wish to kill the kernel task from user space by making an ioctl call into the kernel, then how is it possible? Is it feasible at all?
> 
> 
> If the kernel task is hung because of some bug in your code, then it isn't
> really possible in general. You could always just "up" the semaphore and hope,
> but things might be corrupted.
> 
> If you just want to tell the kernel task to quit, I guess you'd just introduce
> some quit ioctl message, and have the kernel thread respond to that.
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