From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:23:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ve7on74h.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14pf8omvz.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:57:36 -0700")
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> Hmm. I wonder if we could ensure kernel_thread always
> returns a global pid_t, and then reallocate the struct
> pid for the task we have just daemonized so that it only
> has a single pid in the init_pid_ns.
Well we can't reallocate the struct pid, if anyone was using
it we would have problems, but we can certainly remove all
pid_t values except for those in the init_pid_ns.
We definitely have some serious issues with kernel_thread
and signal sending though.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-26 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-26 14:25 Oleg Nesterov
2007-11-26 18:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-11-26 18:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-26 19:23 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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