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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-05-10 21:08:37 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-05-10 21:08:37 +1000
commit2ecf042ef530dd0943e41d84b6344f507941af3e (patch)
tree73100361dd74e3f80f14c7c81ba4675948983f44 /kernel/exit.c
parent32a56ebb24f23da1bbaf24292acf85b6c04526ab (diff)
parentde5603748af8bf7deac403e6ba92887f8d18e812 (diff)
Merge branch 'linux-2.6'
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index f5a7abb621f..b0c6f0c3a2d 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/profile.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/taskstats_kern.h>
#include <linux/delayacct.h>
@@ -254,26 +255,25 @@ static int has_stopped_jobs(struct pid *pgrp)
}
/**
- * reparent_to_init - Reparent the calling kernel thread to the init task of the pid space that the thread belongs to.
+ * reparent_to_kthreadd - Reparent the calling kernel thread to kthreadd
*
* If a kernel thread is launched as a result of a system call, or if
- * it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to init so that
- * it is correctly cleaned up on exit.
+ * it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to kthreadd so it
+ * isn't in the way of other processes and is correctly cleaned up on exit.
*
* The various task state such as scheduling policy and priority may have
* been inherited from a user process, so we reset them to sane values here.
*
- * NOTE that reparent_to_init() gives the caller full capabilities.
+ * NOTE that reparent_to_kthreadd() gives the caller full capabilities.
*/
-static void reparent_to_init(void)
+static void reparent_to_kthreadd(void)
{
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
ptrace_unlink(current);
/* Reparent to init */
remove_parent(current);
- current->parent = child_reaper(current);
- current->real_parent = child_reaper(current);
+ current->real_parent = current->parent = kthreadd_task;
add_parent(current);
/* Set the exit signal to SIGCHLD so we signal init on exit */
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ int disallow_signal(int sig)
return -EINVAL;
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
- sigaddset(&current->blocked, sig);
+ current->sighand->action[(sig)-1].sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN;
recalc_sigpending();
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
return 0;
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ void daemonize(const char *name, ...)
current->files = init_task.files;
atomic_inc(&current->files->count);
- reparent_to_init();
+ reparent_to_kthreadd();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(daemonize);