diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_fork.c b/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
--- a/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_fork.c
@@ -497,9 +497,12 @@
 	} else {
 		sigacts_copy(newsigacts, p1->p_sigacts);
 		p2->p_sigacts = newsigacts;
-		if ((fr->fr_flags2 & FR2_DROPSIG_CAUGHT) != 0) {
+		if ((fr->fr_flags2 & (FR2_DROPSIG_CAUGHT | FR2_KPROC)) != 0) {
 			mtx_lock(&p2->p_sigacts->ps_mtx);
-			sig_drop_caught(p2);
+			if ((fr->fr_flags2 & FR2_DROPSIG_CAUGHT) != 0)
+				sig_drop_caught(p2);
+			if ((fr->fr_flags2 & FR2_KPROC) != 0)
+				p2->p_sigacts->ps_flag |= PS_NOCLDWAIT;
 			mtx_unlock(&p2->p_sigacts->ps_mtx);
 		}
 	}
@@ -511,6 +514,11 @@
 	else
 	        p2->p_sigparent = SIGCHLD;
 
+	if ((fr->fr_flags2 & FR2_KPROC) != 0) {
+		p2->p_flag |= P_SYSTEM | P_KPROC;
+		td2->td_pflags |= TDP_KTHREAD;
+	}
+
 	p2->p_textvp = p1->p_textvp;
 	p2->p_fd = fd;
 	p2->p_fdtol = fdtol;
diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_kthread.c b/sys/kern/kern_kthread.c
--- a/sys/kern/kern_kthread.c
+++ b/sys/kern/kern_kthread.c
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
 
 	bzero(&fr, sizeof(fr));
 	fr.fr_flags = RFMEM | RFFDG | RFPROC | RFSTOPPED | flags;
+	fr.fr_flags2 = FR2_KPROC;
 	fr.fr_pages = pages;
 	fr.fr_procp = &p2;
 	error = fork1(&thread0, &fr);
@@ -105,21 +106,11 @@
 	if (newpp != NULL)
 		*newpp = p2;
 
-	/* this is a non-swapped system process */
-	PROC_LOCK(p2);
-	td = FIRST_THREAD_IN_PROC(p2);
-	p2->p_flag |= P_SYSTEM | P_KPROC;
-	td->td_pflags |= TDP_KTHREAD;
-	mtx_lock(&p2->p_sigacts->ps_mtx);
-	p2->p_sigacts->ps_flag |= PS_NOCLDWAIT;
-	mtx_unlock(&p2->p_sigacts->ps_mtx);
-	PROC_UNLOCK(p2);
-
 	/* set up arg0 for 'ps', et al */
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
 	vsnprintf(p2->p_comm, sizeof(p2->p_comm), fmt, ap);
 	va_end(ap);
-	/* set up arg0 for 'ps', et al */
+	td = FIRST_THREAD_IN_PROC(p2);
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
 	vsnprintf(td->td_name, sizeof(td->td_name), fmt, ap);
 	va_end(ap);
@@ -295,12 +286,14 @@
 	TSTHREAD(newtd, newtd->td_name);
 
 	newtd->td_proc = p;  /* needed for cpu_copy_thread */
+	newtd->td_pflags |= TDP_KTHREAD;
+
 	/* might be further optimized for kthread */
 	cpu_copy_thread(newtd, oldtd);
+
 	/* put the designated function(arg) as the resume context */
 	cpu_fork_kthread_handler(newtd, func, arg);
 
-	newtd->td_pflags |= TDP_KTHREAD;
 	thread_cow_get_proc(newtd, p);
 
 	/* this code almost the same as create_thread() in kern_thr.c */
diff --git a/sys/sys/proc.h b/sys/sys/proc.h
--- a/sys/sys/proc.h
+++ b/sys/sys/proc.h
@@ -1055,6 +1055,7 @@
 	int 		fr_flags2;
 #define	FR2_DROPSIG_CAUGHT	0x00000001 /* Drop caught non-DFL signals */
 #define	FR2_SHARE_PATHS		0x00000002 /* Invert sense of RFFDG for paths */
+#define	FR2_KPROC		0x00000004 /* Create a kernel process */
 };
 
 /*