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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signals: Generate warning when flush_signals() is called from non-kthread context
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 19:35:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150504173515.GA12200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150502183001.07eae212@notabene.brown>

On 05/02, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> All the calls in md.c are in a kernel thread so safe, but I'd rather have an
> explicit "uninterruptible, but no load-average" wait....

Could you please explain why md_thread() does allow_signal(SIGKILL) ?

I am just curious. It looks as if we want to allow user-space to "call"
thread->run(), and this looks strange.

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-04 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-01 17:40 [GIT PULL] VFIO fixes for v4.1-rc2 Alex Williamson
2015-05-01 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-01 18:48   ` Alex Williamson
2015-05-01 20:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-01 22:03       ` Alex Williamson
2015-05-01 19:38   ` [PATCH] signals: Generate warning when flush_signals() is called from non-kthread context Ingo Molnar
2015-05-02  8:30     ` NeilBrown
2015-05-02 16:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-05-07 12:54         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-04 17:35       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-05-07 13:33         ` Jiri Kosina
2015-05-07 22:37           ` NeilBrown
2015-05-02 11:56     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2015-05-02 16:33     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-03 17:34     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-04 16:45       ` [PATCH 0/1] signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds() Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-04 16:45         ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-04 19:43           ` Paul Moore
2015-05-06 10:19       ` [PATCH] signals: Generate warning when flush_signals() is called from non-kthread context Ingo Molnar
2015-05-01 20:11   ` [GIT PULL] VFIO fixes for v4.1-rc2 Richard Weinberger
2015-05-01 21:09     ` Richard Weinberger

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