1. 01 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 17 7月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 24 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  4. 10 5月, 2007 2 次提交
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      change kernel threads to ignore signals instead of blocking them · 10ab825b
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      Currently kernel threads use sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) to protect against
      signals.  This doesn't prevent the signal delivery, this only blocks
      signal_wake_up().  Every "killall -33 kthreadd" means a "struct siginfo"
      leak.
      
      Change kthreadd_setup() to set all handlers to SIG_IGN instead of blocking
      them (make a new helper ignore_signals() for that).  If the kernel thread
      needs some signal, it should use allow_signal() anyway, and in that case it
      should not use CLONE_SIGHAND.
      
      Note that we can't change daemonize() (should die!) in the same way,
      because it can be used along with CLONE_SIGHAND.  This means that
      allow_signal() still should unblock the signal to work correctly with
      daemonize()ed threads.
      
      However, disallow_signal() doesn't block the signal any longer but ignores
      it.
      
      NOTE: with or without this patch the kernel threads are not protected from
      handle_stop_signal(), this seems harmless, but not good.
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      10ab825b
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      kthread: don't depend on work queues · 73c27992
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      Currently there is a circular reference between work queue initialization
      and kthread initialization.  This prevents the kthread infrastructure from
      initializing until after work queues have been initialized.
      
      We want the properties of tasks created with kthread_create to be as close
      as possible to the init_task and to not be contaminated by user processes.
      The later we start our kthreadd that creates these tasks the harder it is
      to avoid contamination from user processes and the more of a mess we have
      to clean up because the defaults have changed on us.
      
      So this patch modifies the kthread support to not use work queues but to
      instead use a simple list of structures, and to have kthreadd start from
      init_task immediately after our kernel thread that execs /sbin/init.
      
      By being a true child of init_task we only have to change those process
      settings that we want to have different from init_task, such as our process
      name, the cpus that are allowed, blocking all signals and setting SIGCHLD
      to SIG_IGN so that all of our children are reaped automatically.
      
      By being a true child of init_task we also naturally get our ppid set to 0
      and do not wind up as a child of PID == 1.  Ensuring that tasks generated
      by kthread_create will not slow down the functioning of the wait family of
      functions.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use interruptible sleeps]
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      73c27992
  5. 12 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 22 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data · 65f27f38
      David Howells 提交于
      Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
      The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.
      
      For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
      pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
      structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.
      
      To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
      work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.
      
      Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
      scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
      work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
      that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
      else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
      problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).
      
      However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
      function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
      with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
      work_struct by calling work_release().
      
      In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
      initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).
      Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      65f27f38
  7. 15 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 26 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 26 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock · 05eeae20
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      A couple of places are forgetting to take it.
      
      The kswapd case is probably unimportant.  keventd_create_kthread() was racy.
      
      The whole thing is a bit flakey: you start a kernel thread, get its pid from
      kernel_thread() then look up its task_struct.
      
      a) It assumes that pid recycling takes a "long" time.
      
      b) We get a task_struct but no reference was taken on it.  The owner of the
         kswapd and kthread task_struct*'s must assume that the new thread won't
         exit unexpectedly.  Because if it does, they're left holding dead memory
         and any attempt to control or stop that task will crash.
      
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      05eeae20
  10. 23 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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  12. 01 5月, 2005 1 次提交
  13. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4