Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans | Date | Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:52:03 -0600 |
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"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Egads, I apologize. > > Apparently I was in a daze, as I'd forgotten that converting > all kernel_thread users to kthread was something else we wanted > to work towards, and which Christoph had explicitly asked for > help with.
Yep. And the linux-vserver guys discovered the hard way.
>> Ok a couple of comments. >> >> As I recall there are some pretty sane ways of going >> from struct pid to a task_struct and then we can use things >> like group_send_sig. > > Oh, you mean instead of doing kill_proc(struct pid->nr), which > I guess was pretty braindead? :)
I think it defeats half our purpose.
> Ok, futile as this may have seemed overall, I think it's helped > me figure out what to actually do.
Sure and that is what it was aimed to do.
You want to attack the kernel_thread -> kthread thing?
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