On 6/27/07, Satyam Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
On 6/26/07, Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/26, Satyam Sharma wrote:
[...]
> > So could we have signals in _addition_ to kthread_stop_info and change
> > kthread_should_stop() to check for both:
> >
> > kthread_stop_info.k == current && signal_pending(current)
>
> No, this can't work in general. Some kthreads do flush_signals/dequeue_signal,
> so TIF_SIGPENDING can be lost anyway.
Yup, I had thought of precisely this issue yesterday as well. The mental note
I made to myself was that the force_sig(SIGKILL) and wake_up_process() in
kthread_stop() must be atomic so that the following race is not possible:
Hmm, the issue seems to have more to do with the ordering of
flush_signals() w.r.t. checking kthread_should_stop() in the kthread's
code. I thought about how to tackle this, but there's no easy way to make
the stuff atomic like I thought earlier. The problem, like you mentioned,
is if the target kthread proactively flushes its signals by hand *before*
checking kthread_should_stop().
The only way out seems to be to simply outlaw flush_signals() in kthreads
(or anything to do with signals), but that would be impossible to enforce ...
Satyam
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