linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:20:08 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session

On 11/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Any reason why daemonized kthread still uses 1,1 special pids?

Actually, I guess the reason is that this was not possible before.
Now that set_special_pids uses "struct pid" we can do this.

Perhaps it is better to move the callsite to reparent_to_kthreadd()
and kill set_sepcial_pids().

Oleg.

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