Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:36:05 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: kjournald keeps reference to namespace |
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Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org> wrote: > > Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> 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
> I got overexcited and also embedded the journal device in the process > name, but that's probably useless churn. Looks nice in pstree though: > > |-kthread-+-kblockd/0 > | |-khubd > | |-2*[pdflush] > | |-aio/0 > | |-v9fs/0 > | |-cqueue/0 > | |-kfand > | |-kcryptd/0 > | |-kjournald/3:3 > | |-kjournald/3:8 > | |-kjournald/3:4 > | |-kjournald/3:5 > | `-kjournald/254:1
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