Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:25:08 -0500 | Subject | [PATCH] 8139too thread termination | From | Robert Kuebel <> |
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this patch stops the 8139too kernel thread from dying on any signal. now, it will only terminate when the driver is closed.
the patch is agains 2.4.13.
thanks. rob.
--- drivers/net/8139too.orig.c Mon Oct 29 22:59:15 2001 +++ drivers/net/8139too.c Mon Oct 29 23:07:32 2001 @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ Kalle Olavi Niemitalo - Wake-on-LAN ioctls + Robert Kuebel - Save kernel thread from dying on any signal. + Submitting bug reports: "rtl8139-diag -mmmaaavvveefN" output @@ -616,6 +618,7 @@ struct completion thr_exited; u32 rx_config; struct rtl_extra_stats xstats; + int time_to_die; }; MODULE_AUTHOR ("Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>"); @@ -1669,7 +1672,13 @@ timeout = interruptible_sleep_on_timeout (&tp->thr_wait, timeout); } while (!signal_pending (current) && (timeout > 0)); - if (signal_pending (current)) + if (signal_pending (current)) { + spin_lock_irq(¤t->sigmask_lock); + flush_signals(current); + spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sigmask_lock); + } + + if (tp->time_to_die) break; rtnl_lock (); @@ -2200,6 +2209,8 @@ netif_stop_queue (dev); if (tp->thr_pid >= 0) { + tp->time_to_die = 1; + wmb(); ret = kill_proc (tp->thr_pid, SIGTERM, 1); if (ret) { printk (KERN_ERR "%s: unable to signal thread\n", dev->name); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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