oom: prevent livelock when oom_kill_allocating_task is set
[linux-2.6/cjktty.git] / kernel / kthread.c
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1 /* Kernel thread helper functions.
2 * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation, Rusty Russell.
4 * Creation is done via kthreadd, so that we get a clean environment
5 * even if we're invoked from userspace (think modprobe, hotplug cpu,
6 * etc.).
7 */
8 #include <linux/sched.h>
9 #include <linux/kthread.h>
10 #include <linux/completion.h>
11 #include <linux/err.h>
12 #include <linux/unistd.h>
13 #include <linux/file.h>
14 #include <linux/module.h>
15 #include <linux/mutex.h>
16 #include <trace/sched.h>
18 #define KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL (-5)
20 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);
21 static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list);
22 struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
24 DEFINE_TRACE(sched_kthread_stop);
25 DEFINE_TRACE(sched_kthread_stop_ret);
27 struct kthread_create_info
29 /* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
30 int (*threadfn)(void *data);
31 void *data;
32 struct completion started;
34 /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */
35 struct task_struct *result;
36 struct completion done;
38 struct list_head list;
41 struct kthread_stop_info
43 struct task_struct *k;
44 int err;
45 struct completion done;
48 /* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
49 * multiple kthread_stop calls. */
50 static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
51 static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
53 /**
54 * kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
56 * When someone calls kthread_stop() on your kthread, it will be woken
57 * and this will return true. You should then return, and your return
58 * value will be passed through to kthread_stop().
60 int kthread_should_stop(void)
62 return (kthread_stop_info.k == current);
64 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
66 static int kthread(void *_create)
68 struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
69 int (*threadfn)(void *data);
70 void *data;
71 int ret = -EINTR;
73 /* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
74 threadfn = create->threadfn;
75 data = create->data;
77 /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
78 __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
79 create->result = current;
80 complete(&create->started);
81 schedule();
83 if (!kthread_should_stop())
84 ret = threadfn(data);
86 /* It might have exited on its own, w/o kthread_stop. Check. */
87 if (kthread_should_stop()) {
88 kthread_stop_info.err = ret;
89 complete(&kthread_stop_info.done);
91 return 0;
94 static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
96 int pid;
98 /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
99 pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
100 if (pid < 0)
101 create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
102 else
103 wait_for_completion(&create->started);
104 complete(&create->done);
108 * kthread_create - create a kthread.
109 * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
110 * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
111 * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
113 * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
114 * thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
115 * it. See also kthread_run(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
117 * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
118 * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
119 * standalone thread for which noone will call kthread_stop(), or
120 * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means
121 * kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero
122 * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
124 * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
126 struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
127 void *data,
128 const char namefmt[],
129 ...)
131 struct kthread_create_info create;
133 create.threadfn = threadfn;
134 create.data = data;
135 init_completion(&create.started);
136 init_completion(&create.done);
138 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
139 list_add_tail(&create.list, &kthread_create_list);
140 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
142 wake_up_process(kthreadd_task);
143 wait_for_completion(&create.done);
145 if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
146 struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
147 va_list args;
149 va_start(args, namefmt);
150 vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm),
151 namefmt, args);
152 va_end(args);
154 * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
155 * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
157 sched_setscheduler_nocheck(create.result, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
158 set_user_nice(create.result, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
159 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create.result, cpu_all_mask);
161 return create.result;
163 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create);
166 * kthread_bind - bind a just-created kthread to a cpu.
167 * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
168 * @cpu: cpu (might not be online, must be possible) for @k to run on.
170 * Description: This function is equivalent to set_cpus_allowed(),
171 * except that @cpu doesn't need to be online, and the thread must be
172 * stopped (i.e., just returned from kthread_create()).
174 void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
176 /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
177 if (!wait_task_inactive(k, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)) {
178 WARN_ON(1);
179 return;
181 set_task_cpu(k, cpu);
182 k->cpus_allowed = cpumask_of_cpu(cpu);
183 k->rt.nr_cpus_allowed = 1;
184 k->flags |= PF_THREAD_BOUND;
186 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
189 * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
190 * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
192 * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and
193 * waits for it to exit. Your threadfn() must not call do_exit()
194 * itself if you use this function! This can also be called after
195 * kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread
196 * will exit without calling threadfn().
198 * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
199 * was never called.
201 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
203 int ret;
205 mutex_lock(&kthread_stop_lock);
207 /* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
208 get_task_struct(k);
210 trace_sched_kthread_stop(k);
212 /* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
213 init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
214 smp_wmb();
216 /* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
217 kthread_stop_info.k = k;
218 wake_up_process(k);
219 put_task_struct(k);
221 /* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
222 wait_for_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
223 kthread_stop_info.k = NULL;
224 ret = kthread_stop_info.err;
225 mutex_unlock(&kthread_stop_lock);
227 trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
229 return ret;
231 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
233 int kthreadd(void *unused)
235 struct task_struct *tsk = current;
237 /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
238 set_task_comm(tsk, "kthreadd");
239 ignore_signals(tsk);
240 set_user_nice(tsk, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
241 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpu_all_mask);
243 current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE | PF_FREEZER_NOSIG;
245 for (;;) {
246 set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
247 if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list))
248 schedule();
249 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
251 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
252 while (!list_empty(&kthread_create_list)) {
253 struct kthread_create_info *create;
255 create = list_entry(kthread_create_list.next,
256 struct kthread_create_info, list);
257 list_del_init(&create->list);
258 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
260 create_kthread(create);
262 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
264 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
267 return 0;