From 7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:37 -0700 Subject: introduce PF_KTHREAD flag 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 Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/init_task.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h') diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 93c45acf249..021d8e720c7 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -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, \ -- cgit v1.2.3