Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>]

On 04/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
>  static int kthread(void *_create)
>  {
>  	struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
>  	int (*threadfn)(void *data);
>  	void *data;
> -	sigset_t blocked;
>  	int ret = -EINTR;
>  
> -	kthread_exit_files();
> -
> -	/* Copy data: it's on keventd's stack */
> +	/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
>  	threadfn = create->threadfn;
>  	data = create->data;
>  
> -	/* Block and flush all signals (in case we're not from keventd). */
> -	sigfillset(&blocked);
> -	sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL);
> -	flush_signals(current);
> -
> -	/* By default we can run anywhere, unlike keventd. */
> -	set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);

The above is OK, but I believe you should add set_cpus_allowed() to
kthreadd_setup(). Note that kthreadd() is forked after init_idle().

Oleg.

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