Hi, i wanted to kill a kthread created by my module, There is no actual kthread_kill to kill it hence I tried to send kill signal to thread psignal(p, SIGTERM); psignal(p, SIGKILL); killproc(p,"messeage"); and kthread_suspend() Nothing seems to be killing the kthread, I still see it [root_at_ /usr/src]# ps awx -l | grep kernel UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 0 1048 1 0 20 0 0 8 ktsusp DL ?? 0:00.01 [new_kernel_thread] I have noticed that generally if kernel module wanted to kill a thread then it calls { wakeup(p); msleep(p,0); /*or tsleep*/ } This puts the thread to sleep forever. However kthread_suspend also performs same actions. Does scheduler take care to killing it? I read that after 2 min scheduler wakes up the thread and eventually kills it, i see the same kthread suspended even after a day I would appreciate any thoughts in this reagard. Thanks, -lekhaReceived on Wed Sep 03 2008 - 08:04:31 UTC
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