UBUNTU: SAUCE: kthread: Do not leave kthread_create() immediately upon SIGKILL.
Commit 786235ee "kthread: make kthread_create() killable" changed to leave kthread_create() as soon as receiving SIGKILL. But this change caused boot failures if systemd-udevd worker process received SIGKILL due to systemd's hardcoded 30 seconds timeout while loading fusion driver using finit_module() [1]. Linux kernel people think that the systemd's hardcoded timeout is a systemd bug. But systemd people think that loading of kernel module needs more than 30 seconds is a kernel module's bug. Although Linux kernel people are expecting fusion driver module not to take more than 30 seconds, it will definitely not in time for trusty kernel. Also, nobody can prove that fusion driver module is the only case which is affected by commit 786235ee. Therefore, this patch changes kthread_create() to wait for up to 10 seconds after receiving SIGKILL, unless chosen by the OOM killer, in order to give the kthreadd a chance to complete the request. The side effect of this patch is that current thread's response to SIGKILL is delayed for a bit (likely less than a second, unlikely 10 seconds). [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1276705Reported-by: Pierre Fersing <pierref@pierref.org> Reported-by: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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