linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfs lockd reclaimer: Convert to kthread API

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Message-ID: <m1vefpim6n.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:04:16 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs lockd reclaimer: Convert to kthread API

Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 17:19 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> > With pid namespaces all kernel threads will disappear so how do
>> > we cope with the problem when the sysadmin can not see the kernel
>> > threads?
>
> Do they actually always disappear, or do we keep them in the
> init_pid_namespace?

In the init pid namespace but not in any of it's children.

Eric
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