Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:43:33 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/12] add trace events for each syscall entry/exit |
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > Ah, there are callsites that use kernel_thread() directly? > > Does it means that t->mm could be non NULL for such resulting > > kernel threads, in that case it would be hard to hook on > > do_fork() to check that. > > Oh yes, you are right. kernel threads created with kernel_thread() > have t->mm != NULL if the forking process has an mm too. > > There are very few callsites left which still use kernel_thread(). > (the last one in s390 driver code will be gone after the next > merge window). > > As far as I can there are only four callsites left > (excluding staging): jffs2 and three in net/bluetooth/*
Ouch! Those need to be fixed.
Thanks,
-- Steve
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