linux-kernel - Re: [patch] cpusets, cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

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Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:45:37 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] cpusets, cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 18:22 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > I don't know of anything other than kthreadd where moving it here, or
> > over yonder matters one bit.
> > 
> 
> Clear PF_THREAD_BOUND for watchdog or migration kthreads and change their 
> affinity or move them into a cpuset where cpuset.cpus doesn't include the 
> cpu they are bound to and it'll be obvious.

Sure, I mean where Joe User can trip over an existing stumbling block.

	-Mike

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