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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: io-uring <[email protected]>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/2] PF_IO_WORKER signal tweaks
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:56:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wh3DCgezr5RKQ4Mqffoj-F4i47rp85Q4MSFRNhrr8tg3w@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/20/21 1:18 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 10:51 AM Linus Torvalds
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Alternatively, make it not use
>> CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD at all, but that would make it
>> unnecessarily allocate its own signal state, so that's "cleaner" but
>> not great either.
> 
> Thinking some more about that, it would be problematic for things like
> the resource counters too. They'd be much better shared.
> 
> Not adding it to the thread list etc might be clever, but feels a bit too scary.

That would be my immediate concern - it might very well be the right long
term solution, but I'd be wary of doing it upfront and having weird fallout
due to it.

> So on the whole I think Jens' minor patches to just not have IO helper
> threads accept signals are probably the right thing to do.

I do think we should just go with those two - they are simple and
straight forward. I'm also totally fine replacing 2/2 with Eric's
variant if he prefers that, I've confirmed that it works fine for me as
well.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-20 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-20 15:38 [PATCHSET 0/2] PF_IO_WORKER signal tweaks Jens Axboe
2021-03-20 15:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] signal: don't allow sending any signals to PF_IO_WORKER threads Jens Axboe
2021-03-20 16:18   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-20 17:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-20 21:38       ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-20 22:42         ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-21 14:54           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-21 15:40             ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-20 15:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] signal: don't allow STOP on " Jens Axboe
2021-03-20 16:21   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-22 16:18     ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-03-22 16:15   ` Oleg Nesterov
2021-03-20 16:26 ` [PATCHSET 0/2] PF_IO_WORKER signal tweaks Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-20 17:51   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-20 19:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-20 22:08       ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-20 22:53         ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-21 15:18           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-03-21 15:42             ` Jens Axboe
2021-03-20 22:56       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2021-03-20 17:05 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-20 17:05 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-20 19:10 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-22 16:05 ` Oleg Nesterov

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