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If an svc thread needs to perform some initialisation that might fail, it has no good way to handle the failure. Before the thread can exit it must call svc_exit_thread(), but that requires the service mutex to be held. The thread cannot simply take the mutex as that could deadlock if there is a concurrent attempt to shut down all threads (which is unlikely, but not impossible). nfsd currently call svc_exit_thread() unprotected in the unlikely event that unshare_fs_struct() fails. We can clean this up by introducing svc_thread_init_status() by which an svc thread can report whether initialisation has succeeded. If it has, it continues normally into the action loop. If it has not, svc_thread_init_status() immediately aborts the thread. svc_start_kthread() waits for either of these to happen, and calls svc_exit_thread() (under the mutex) if the thread aborted. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.