introduce PF_KTHREAD flag
Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads. It is set
by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in
kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead).
daemonize() was changed as well. In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is
racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway.
This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler().
Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in
start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC. But I think this
doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die
soon.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 93c45ac..021d8e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
.state = 0, \
.stack = &init_thread_info, \
.usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2), \
- .flags = 0, \
+ .flags = PF_KTHREAD, \
.lock_depth = -1, \
.prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \
.static_prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \