Re: [PATCH] signals: Generate warning when flush_signals() is called from non-kthread context

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/02, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> All the calls in md.c are in a kernel thread so safe, but I'd rather have an
> explicit "uninterruptible, but no load-average" wait....

Could you please explain why md_thread() does allow_signal(SIGKILL) ?

I am just curious. It looks as if we want to allow user-space to "call"
thread->run(), and this looks strange.

Oleg.

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