On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:13:13 -0600 [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> This patch reworks kthread_stop so it is more flexible and it causes
> the target kthread to abort interruptible sleeps. Allowing a larger
> class of kernel threads to use to the kthread API.
>
> The changes start by defining TIF_KTHREAD_STOP on all architectures.
> TIF_KTHREAD_STOP is a per process flag that I can set from another
> process to indicate that a kernel thread should stop.
>
> wake_up_process in kthread_stop has been replaced by signal_wake_up
> ensuring that the kernel thread if sleeping is woken up in a timely
> manner and with TIF_SIGNAL_PENDING set, which causes us to break out
> of interruptible sleeps.
>
> recalc_signal_pending was modified to keep TIF_SIGNAL_PENDING set for
> as long as TIF_KTHREAD_STOP is set.
>
> Arbitrary paths to do_exit are now allowed. I have placed a
> completion on the thread stack and pointed vfork_done at it, when the
> mm_release is called from do_exit the completion will be called.
> Since the completion is stored on the stack it is important that
> kthread() now calls do_exit ensuring the stack frame that holds the
> completion is never released, and so that our exit_code is certain to
> make it unchanged all the way to do_exit.
>
> To allow kthread_stop to read the process exit code when exit_mm wakes
> it up I have moved the setting of exit_code to the beginning of
> do_exit.
This patch causes this oops: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000508.jpg
with this config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-x.txt
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