Re: [PATCH] RFC: siox: don't create a thread without starting it

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:21:21PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > I don't think so, that patch has an issue with INTERRUPTIBLE, but IDLE
> > very much doesn't allow signals like INTERRUPTIBLE does.
> 
> I don't think I can provide a good commit log for
> s/TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE/TASK_IDLE/ in kernel/kthread.c:kthread(). But I
> can confirm that this patch makes the warning go away, so if you want to
> address this, you can add my Tested-by:.

Yeah, it's also a little bit more involved, I'd also have to change all
the kthread_bind() code and audit all kthread users to see if anybody
else actually relies on TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

So I think I'll leave it as is for now, maybe another day ... :-)