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 <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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@ -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, \