From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] bcache: ignore pending signals when creating gc and allocator thread
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:38:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200220163803.GA12147@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f6cd622-3476-068b-3593-f918ab011156@suse.de>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:20:49PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> Therefore I need to explicitly call pending_signal() before calling
> kthread_run().
Right now you have to. But the proper fix is to not require this and
fix kthread_run to work from a thread that has been selected by the OOM
killer. In the most trivial version by moving your code into
kthread_run, but there probably are better ways as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-13 14:12 [PATCH 0/3] bcache patches for Linux v5.6-rc2 Coly Li
2020-02-13 14:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] bcache: ignore pending signals when creating gc and allocator thread Coly Li
2020-02-19 16:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-20 13:20 ` Coly Li
2020-02-20 16:38 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-02-20 16:47 ` Coly Li
2020-02-13 14:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] bcache: Revert "bcache: shrink btree node cache after bch_btree_check()" Coly Li
2020-02-13 14:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] bcache: remove macro nr_to_fifo_front() Coly Li
2020-02-13 15:54 ` [PATCH 0/3] bcache patches for Linux v5.6-rc2 Jens Axboe
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