Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ham] Re: Gracefully killing kswapd, or any kernel thread | From | Kristis Makris <> | Date | Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:07:12 -0700 |
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> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be
There must be another way to do it. Perhaps one could have another process effectively issue the contents of do_exit for the kswapd task_struct ?
> CODED to do that! You can't do it externally although you can send
I'm clearly asking for the case where the thread wasn't coded to do that.
> it a signal, after which it will spin forever....
kflushd and keventd don't seem to spin forever. I still haven't determined what makes kswapd spin forever after it receives the signal.
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