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.
next prev 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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