Re: patch] cpusets, cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

From: Paul Menage
Date: Wed Oct 19 2011 - 00:56:40 EST


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Paul Menage <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can see the argument that the number of use-cases for this is fairly
> small, but in line with the principle of keeping the ABI as stable as
> possible in the absence of bugs that force a change, having the
> restriction in the necessary subsystems seems cleaner.
>

Separately, an alternative fix for the cpusets case be to make it
always possible to move a thread to the root cpuset, even if it's
PF_THREAD_BOUND?

Paul
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