In message <AAEGIMDAKGCBHLBAACGBAELNCHAA.balbir.singh@wipro.com> you write:
> I tried a version of __daemonize in 2.4. It panics in
> schedule()
>
> prepare_to_switch();
> {
> struct mm_struct *mm = next->mm;
> struct mm_struct *oldmm = prev->active_mm;
> if (!mm) {
> if (next->active_mm) BUG();
>
> I got hit by the BUG() in 2.4, I think prepare_to_switch has
> moved to specific archs in 2.5. A quick look showed that
> this issue no longer exists in 2.5.
Uhhh... there are many other problems if you are trying to do this on
a "live" process. idle process creation is a special case because it
has never been run yet.
This is not a generic "daemonize this task" mechanism!
Rusty.
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