Andrew Morton <[email protected]> writes:
> Paul Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Herbert Poetzl <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:54:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> >> I think it'd be better to convert ext3 to use the kthread API which
>> >> appears to accidentally not have this problem, because such threads
>> >> are parented by keventd, which were parented by init.
>> >
>> > sounds like a plan!
>>
>> Here's my attempt at such a conversion. Since jbd doesn't seem to
>> want to collect an exit status, I didn't bother with kthread_stop().
>
> Ah. I already did something similar.
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc4/2.6.16-rc4-mm2/broken-out/jbd-convert-kjournald-to-kthread-api.patch
Sweet, I managed to get it right at least.
>> I got overexcited and also embedded the journal device in the process
>> name, but that's probably useless churn. Looks nice in pstree though:
>>
>> | `-kjournald/254:1
>
> We only have 15 chars for that string - the final one you have there is on
> the raggedy edge.
Oh well, it's not that useful anyway. I can count the number of times
I've needed to kill a particular kjournald on the fingers of one head.
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