Re: kjournald keeps reference to namespace

[Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org>]

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org> wrote:
>>
>>  Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:
>> 
>>  > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:54:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>  >> I think it'd be better to convert ext3 to use the kthread API which
>>  >> appears to accidentally not have this problem, because such threads
>>  >> are parented by keventd, which were parented by init.
>>  >
>>  > sounds like a plan!
>> 
>>  Here's my attempt at such a conversion.  Since jbd doesn't seem to
>>  want to collect an exit status, I didn't bother with kthread_stop().
>
> Ah.  I already did something similar. 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc4/2.6.16-rc4-mm2/broken-out/jbd-convert-kjournald-to-kthread-api.patch

Sweet, I managed to get it right at least.

>>  I got overexcited and also embedded the journal device in the process
>>  name, but that's probably useless churn.  Looks nice in pstree though:
>> 
>>       |         `-kjournald/254:1
>
> We only have 15 chars for that string - the final one you have there is on
> the raggedy edge.

Oh well, it's not that useful anyway.  I can count the number of times
I've needed to kill a particular kjournald on the fingers of one head.

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