> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be
There must be another way to do it. Perhaps one could have another process effectively issue the contents of do_exit for the kswapd task_struct ? > CODED to do that! You can't do it externally although you can send I'm clearly asking for the case where the thread wasn't coded to do that. > it a signal, after which it will spin forever.... kflushd and keventd don't seem to spin forever. I still haven't determined what makes kswapd spin forever after it receives the signal. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
