Re: kthread, signals and PF_FREEZE (suspend)

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 11:56:12 EST


Rusty Russell wrote:
> > That means that signal_pending() will return true for that process which
> > will make kthread stop the thread.
>
> Yes, the way they are currently coded. I had assumed that spurious
> signals do not occur.

Yowch. Does suspend mean this warning in futex_wait is wrong?

/* A spurious wakeup should never happen. */
WARN_ON(!signal_pending(current));
return -EINTR;

-- Jamie
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