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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kthread: Enhance kthread_stop to abort interruptible sleeps
On 04/24, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Hm, mm_release() clears ->vfork_done before complete().
>
> mm_release:
>
> struct completion *vfork_done = tsk->vfork_done;
>
> if (vfork_done) {
> tsk->vfork_done = NULL;
> complete(vfork_done);
> }
>
>
> kthread_stop:
>
> set_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_KTHREAD_STOP);
> signal_wake_up(tsk, 1);
>
> // tsk exits, sets ->vfork_done == NULL
>
> wait_for_completion(tsk->vfork_done);

Since the task_struct should be pinned anyway, I think kthread_stop()
should do:

vfork_done = tsk->vfork_done;
barrier();
if (vfork_done)
wait_for_completion(vfork_done);

Oleg.

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