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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401032039350.2022-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com> you write:
> > You can get around (2) by having a permenant parent "kthread" thread
> > which is a parent to all the kthreads (it'll get a SIGCHLD when
> > someone does "do_exit()"). But the implementation was pretty ugly,
> > since it involved having a communications mechanism with the kthread
> > parent, which means you have the global ktm_message-like-thing for
> > this...
>
> You will lose in any case. What happens if the thread does do_exit() and
> you do kthread_stop() after that?

That's illegal. Either your thread exits, or you call kthread_stop().

> With the patch I posted to you, the kthread_stop() will simply miss the
> lookup and return -ENOENT.

Or find some other random kthread which has reused the task struct and
kill that 8(

Rusty.
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