On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>AFAICT the kthread uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to not increase loadavg, kthreads
>cannot receive signals by default and this one doesn't look different. Use
>TASK_IDLE instead.
Hmm it seems in general this needs to be done kernel-wide. This kthread abuse of
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE seems to be a common thing. There's also the users doing
schedule_timeout_interruptible()...
Thanks,
Davidlohr