Re: [patch] cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Apr 05 2012 - 12:12:02 EST


On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:47:11AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd
>
> Allowing kthreadd to be moved to a non-root group makes no sense, it being
> a global resource, and needlessly leads unsuspecting users toward trouble.
>
> 1. An RT workqueue worker thread spawned in a task group with no rt_runtime
> allocated is not schedulable. Simple user error, but harmful to the box.
>
> 2. A worker thread which acquires PF_THREAD_BOUND can never leave a cpuset,
> rendering the cpuset immortal.
>
> Save the user some unexpected trouble, just say no.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>

Li, I'm gonna route this through for-3.4-fixes. Can you please ack
it?

Thanks.

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tejun
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