From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932444AbWFJHwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:52:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932447AbWFJHwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:52:17 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:4036 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932444AbWFJHwR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:52:17 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605144328.GA12904@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20060609232551.GA11240@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <20060610012314.GA2378@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:52:03 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060610012314.GA2378@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:23:14 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Egads, I apologize. > > Apparently I was in a daze, as I'd forgotten that converting > all kernel_thread users to kthread was something else we wanted > to work towards, and which Christoph had explicitly asked for > help with. Yep. And the linux-vserver guys discovered the hard way. >> Ok a couple of comments. >> >> As I recall there are some pretty sane ways of going >> from struct pid to a task_struct and then we can use things >> like group_send_sig. > > Oh, you mean instead of doing kill_proc(struct pid->nr), which > I guess was pretty braindead? :) I think it defeats half our purpose. > Ok, futile as this may have seemed overall, I think it's helped > me figure out what to actually do. Sure and that is what it was aimed to do. You want to attack the kernel_thread -> kthread thing? Eric