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Message-ID: <m1slb7v9oc.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:04:19 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] reparent kernel threads to swapper

Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> writes:

> A lot of kernel threads parented to /sbin/init slow down do_wait() when
> a non-detached (user-space) process exits. Change reparent_kthread() to
> use init_task as a parent. Since init_task can't go away, we don't need
> to put the caller on init_task.children list.

Is there any downside of putting tasks on init_task.children?

If not it is probably a good idea to put processes there just for good measure.

> NOTE: pstree doesn't show kernel threads with this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
>
> --- 2.6.21-rc5/kernel/exit.c~3_SWAPPER	2007-04-10 21:59:41.000000000 +0400
> +++ 2.6.21-rc5/kernel/exit.c	2007-04-10 22:25:25.000000000 +0400
> @@ -255,11 +255,11 @@ static int has_stopped_jobs(struct pid *
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * reparent_kthread - Reparent the calling kernel thread to the init task of
> the pid space that the thread belongs to.
> + * reparent_kthread - Reparent the calling kernel thread to swapper.
>   *
>   * If a kernel thread is launched as a result of a system call, or if
> - * it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to init so that
> - * it is correctly cleaned up on exit.
> + * it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself so that it is
> + * correctly cleaned up on exit.
>   *
>   * The various task state such as scheduling policy and priority may have
>   * been inherited from a user process, so we reset them to sane values here.
> @@ -272,9 +272,8 @@ void reparent_kthread(void)
>  
>  	ptrace_unlink(current);
>  	remove_parent(current);
> -	current->parent = init_pid_ns.child_reaper;
> +	current->parent = &init_task;
>  	current->real_parent = current->parent;
> -	add_parent(current);
>  
>  	/* make the task auto-reap */
>  	current->exit_signal = -1;
-
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