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    kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads · 40966e31
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    Today the rules are a bit iffy and arbitrary about which kernel
    threads have struct kthread present.  Both idle threads and thread
    started with create_kthread want struct kthread present so that is
    effectively all kernel threads.  Make the rule that if PF_KTHREAD
    and the task is running then struct kthread is present.
    
    This will allow the kernel thread code to using tsk->exit_code
    with different semantics from ordinary processes.
    
    To make ensure that struct kthread is present for all
    kernel threads move it's allocation into copy_process.
    
    Add a deallocation of struct kthread in exec for processes
    that were kernel threads.
    
    Move the allocation of struct kthread for the initial thread
    earlier so that it is not repeated for each additional idle
    thread.
    
    Move the initialization of struct kthread into set_kthread_struct
    so that the structure is always and reliably initailized.
    
    Clear set_child_tid in free_kthread_struct to ensure the kthread
    struct is reliably freed during exec.  The function
    free_kthread_struct does not need to clear vfork_done during exec as
    exec_mm_release called from exec_mmap has already cleared vfork_done.
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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