Re: [PATCH 1/3] bcache: ignore pending signals when creating gc and allocator thread
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-02-20 16:38:06
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:20:49PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
Therefore I need to explicitly call pending_signal() before calling kthread_run().
Right now you have to. But the proper fix is to not require this and fix kthread_run to work from a thread that has been selected by the OOM killer. In the most trivial version by moving your code into kthread_run, but there probably are better ways as well.