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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:36:34 -0800
From: Nauman Tahir <nauman.tahir@gmail.com>
To: Hua Feijun <hua.feijun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: stop threads failed!
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On 12/17/05, Hua Feijun <hua.feijun@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to set threads's status to TASK_STOPPED by the following
> code.The syslog has show this rourine has been executed,buf the thread
> is still running.Who can tell me the reason?Thanks very much!
> write_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> do
> {
> printk("set threads stopped\n");
> p->state = TASK_STOPPED;
> } while ((p = next_thread(p)) != leader);
> write_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> schedule();
> -

Have you specified the state TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE when you wake up the
thread? If not then do it to ba able to stop it later.
Anybody else correct me if I am wrong please
Regards
Nauman


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