Re: [PATCH 0/6] Allow signals for IO threads

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 3/26/21 7:46 PM, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
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>> Attaching to process 1320
>> [New LWP 1321]
>> [New LWP 1322]
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>> warning: Selected architecture i386:x86-64 is not compatible with reported target architecture i386
>>
>> warning: Architecture rejected target-supplied description
>> syscall () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/syscall.S:38
>> 38      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/syscall.S: No such file or directory.
>> (gdb)
> 
> Ok, the following makes gdb happy again:
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> @@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
>         /* Kernel thread ? */
>         if (unlikely(p->flags & (PF_KTHREAD | PF_IO_WORKER))) {
>                 memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
> +               if (p->flags & PF_IO_WORKER)
> +                       childregs->cs = current_pt_regs()->cs;
>                 kthread_frame_init(frame, sp, arg);
>                 return 0;
>         }

Confirmed, it stops complaining about the arch at that point.

> I'm wondering if we should decouple the PF_KTHREAD and PF_IO_WORKER
> cases even more and keep as much of a userspace-like copy_thread as
> possible.

Probably makes sense, the only thing they really share is the func+arg
setup. Hence PF_IO_WORKER threads likely just use the rest of the init,
where it doesn't conflict with the frame setup.

-- 
Jens Axboe