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Commit 38fd525a authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman
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exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll

Create an independent helper thread_group_exited which returns true
when all threads have passed exit_notify in do_exit.  AKA all of the
threads are at least zombies and might be dead or completely gone.

Create this helper by taking the logic out of pidfd_poll where it is
already tested, and adding a READ_ONCE on the read of
task->exit_state.

I will be changing the user mode driver code to use this same logic
to know when a user mode driver needs to be restarted.

Place the new helper thread_group_exited in kernel/exit.c and
EXPORT it so it can be used by modules.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702164140.4468-13-ebiederm@xmission.com


Acked-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent 1c340ead
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