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Date:	Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:55:34 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:08:34PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/26, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> >
> > I have been testing out a similar patch that uses kernel_thread() without CLONE_FILES
> > flag rather than create_kthread() and then closing the files.
> 
> !CLONE_FILES can't help. copy_files() does dup_fd() in this case.
> The child still inherits the files.
> 
> > Either version should be fine.
> 
> I think neither version is fine ;)
> 
> exit_files() is not enough too. How about the signals, reparenting?
> 
> 
> I already forgot all details, probably I missed somethig. But it
> seems to me that it is better to just export get/set affinity and
> forget about all complications.
> 
> Oleg.


Peter, could you please indicate whether you think this is the way to
go, too?

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