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Subject: Re: patch] cpusets, cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd
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On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 21:56 -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> wrote:
> >
> > I can see the argument that the number of use-cases for this is fairly
> > small, but in line with the principle of keeping the ABI as stable as
> > possible in the absence of bugs that force a change, having the
> > restriction in the necessary subsystems seems cleaner.
> >
> 
> Separately, an alternative fix for the cpusets case be to make it
> always possible to move a thread to the root cpuset, even if it's
> PF_THREAD_BOUND?

Yeah, an escape hatch is what I did first.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/23/14

	-Mike