Re: [PATCH 0/2] Don't show PF_IO_WORKER in /proc/<pid>/task/

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Mar 25 2021 - 16:45:27 EST


On 03/25, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The whole "signals are very special for IO threads" thing has caused
> so many problems, that maybe the solution is simply to _not_ make them
> special?

Or may be IO threads should not abuse CLONE_THREAD?

Why does create_io_thread() abuse CLONE_THREAD ?

One reason (I think) is that this implies SIGKILL when the process exits/execs,
anything else?

Oleg.