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

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Date:	Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:42:57 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 23:07 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: 
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > I submitted that, and it didn't fly.  I like the generic exclusion
> > better, so I submit that for consideration.
> > 
> 
> [+akpm]
> 
> The last time we went through this, it was left after Andrew had fixed it 
> up when the cpusets version was merged in -mm without any disagreement 
> from Peter who was cc'd and that version was acked both by myself and Paul 
> Menage at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/14/402.  Andrew dropped it and 
> asked for a repost since there was some on-going scheduler work going on 
> in linux-next that caused that version not to apply.  No follow-up was 
> ever offered.

Hm, I thought I did that.

> Why have we now gone in a completely different direction again?

I already said that after Peter griped and suggested global, I thought
about it, and liked that better.  The submitted patchlet can either fly
or die.  It's not a big deal.

If I need a reason to like global better, posix like: the user shall not
fool around with my "mom" vs a wishy washy comedy variant of same ;-)

-Mike

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