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Reparent the calling kernel thread to kthreadd
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">void <b class="fsfunc">reparent_to_kthreadd </b>(</code></td><td> <var class="pdparam">void</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2608693"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>void</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
no arguments
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If a kernel thread is launched as a result of a system call, or if
it ever exits, it should generally reparent itself to kthreadd so it
isn't in the way of other processes and is correctly cleaned up on exit.
</p><p>
The various task state such as scheduling policy and priority may have
been inherited from a user process, so we reset them to sane values here.
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NOTE that <code class="function">reparent_to_kthreadd</code> gives the caller full capabilities.
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