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introduce PF_KTHREAD flag

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Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads.  It is set
by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in
kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead).

daemonize() was changed as well.  In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is
racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway.

This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler().
Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in
start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC.  But I think this
doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die
soon.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2008-07-25 01:47:37 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3d749b9e67
commit 7b34e4283c
4 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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fs/exec.c
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@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ int do_execve(char * filename,
if (retval < 0)
goto out;
current->flags &= ~PF_KTHREAD;
retval = search_binary_handler(bprm,regs);
if (retval >= 0) {
/* execve success */

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include/linux/init_task.h
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@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
.state = 0, \
.stack = &init_thread_info, \
.usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2), \
.flags = 0, \
.flags = PF_KTHREAD, \
.lock_depth = -1, \
.prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \
.static_prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \

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include/linux/sched.h
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@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t)
#define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */
#define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */
#define PF_VCPU 0x00000010 /* I'm a virtual CPU */
#define PF_KTHREAD 0x00000020 /* I am a kernel thread */
#define PF_FORKNOEXEC 0x00000040 /* forked but didn't exec */
#define PF_SUPERPRIV 0x00000100 /* used super-user privileges */
#define PF_DUMPCORE 0x00000200 /* dumped core */

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kernel/exit.c
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@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...)
* We don't want to have TIF_FREEZE set if the system-wide hibernation
* or suspend transition begins right now.
*/
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
current->flags |= (PF_NOFREEZE | PF_KTHREAD);
if (current->nsproxy != &init_nsproxy) {
get_nsproxy(&init_nsproxy);