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authorOleg Nesterov2008-07-25 01:47:37 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2008-07-25 10:53:39 -0700
commit7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf (patch)
tree6822edd5c63db79e97b8c5379a18a058bc5405ff /kernel
parent3d749b9e676b26584a47e75c235aa6f69d0697ae (diff)
introduce PF_KTHREAD flag
Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads. It is set by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead). daemonize() was changed as well. In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway. This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler(). Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC. But I think this doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index a7799d8a6404..28a44a2612dc 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...)
* We don't want to have TIF_FREEZE set if the system-wide hibernation
* or suspend transition begins right now.
*/
- current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
+ current->flags |= (PF_NOFREEZE | PF_KTHREAD);
if (current->nsproxy != &init_nsproxy) {
get_nsproxy(&init_nsproxy);