Hello,
I'm trying to kill a kernel thread gracefully, in particular kswapd,
without any success.
The goal is to start another kernel thread that contains updated kswapd
functionality, through a loadable module; no kernel recompilation.
I noticed that kernel threads block SIGKILL. Hence, on modul
> 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 cl
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:36 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kristis Makris wrote:
>
> >> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be
I was able to make it call do_exit(). However, even if I recompile a
kernel to have
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:20 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Because it's now defunct , a zombie, waiting for somebody to
> reap its return status. You are almost there, you need to issue
> the kernel equivalent of waitpid() (sys_waitpid) to grab that
> status and throw it away. That's what
Hello, please CC me as I'm not registered in these lists.
I'd like to announce DynAMOS, a dynamic kernel updating system that
supports Linux and could be of help in kernel development and high
availability.
This system has been a research project at Arizona State University
for the past 3 years a
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