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. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
