Re: [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> writes:

> Any reason why daemonized kthread still uses 1,1 special pids? This patch
> sets 0,0 pids, this matches kthread_create'ed threads.

You got it in your reply...

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>



Hmm.  I wonder if we could ensure kernel_thread always
returns a global pid_t, and then reallocate the struct
pid for the task we have just daemonized so that it only
has a single pid in the init_pid_ns.

That would remove our capturing of child pid namespaces.

Eric
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