kernel/kthread.c

   1 /* Kernel thread helper functions.
   2  *   Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation, Rusty Russell.
   3  *
   4  * Creation is done via keventd, 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 <asm/semaphore.h>
  17
  18 /*
  19  * We dont want to execute off keventd since it might
  20  * hold a semaphore our callers hold too:
  21  */
  22 static struct workqueue_struct *helper_wq;
  23
  24 struct kthread_create_info
  25 {
  26         /* Information passed to kthread() from keventd. */
  27         int (*threadfn)(void *data);
  28         void *data;
  29         struct completion started;
  30
  31         /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from keventd. */
  32         struct task_struct *result;
  33         struct completion done;
  34 };
  35
  36 struct kthread_stop_info
  37 {
  38         struct task_struct *k;
  39         int err;
  40         struct completion done;
  41 };
  42
  43 /* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
  44  * multiple kthread_stop calls. */
  45 static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
  46 static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
  47
  48 /**
  49  * kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
  50  *
  51  * When someone calls kthread_stop on your kthread, it will be woken
  52  * and this will return true.  You should then return, and your return
  53  * value will be passed through to kthread_stop().
  54  */
  55 int kthread_should_stop(void)
  56 {
  57         return (kthread_stop_info.k == current);
  58 }
  59 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
  60
  61 static void kthread_exit_files(void)
  62 {
  63         struct fs_struct *fs;
  64         struct task_struct *tsk = current;
  65
  66         exit_fs(tsk);           /* current->fs->count--; */
  67         fs = init_task.fs;
  68         tsk->fs = fs;
  69         atomic_inc(&fs->count);
  70         exit_files(tsk);
  71         current->files = init_task.files;
  72         atomic_inc(&tsk->files->count);
  73 }
  74
  75 static int kthread(void *_create)
  76 {
  77         struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
  78         int (*threadfn)(void *data);
  79         void *data;
  80         sigset_t blocked;
  81         int ret = -EINTR;
  82
  83         kthread_exit_files();
  84
  85         /* Copy data: it's on keventd's stack */
  86         threadfn = create->threadfn;
  87         data = create->data;
  88
  89         /* Block and flush all signals (in case we're not from keventd). */
  90         sigfillset(&blocked);
  91         sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL);
  92         flush_signals(current);
  93
  94         /* By default we can run anywhere, unlike keventd. */
  95         set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
  96
  97         /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
  98         __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
  99         complete(&create->started);
 100         schedule();
 101
 102         if (!kthread_should_stop())
 103                 ret = threadfn(data);
 104
 105         /* It might have exited on its own, w/o kthread_stop.  Check. */
 106         if (kthread_should_stop()) {
 107                 kthread_stop_info.err = ret;
 108                 complete(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 109         }
 110         return 0;
 111 }
 112
 113 /* We are keventd: create a thread. */
 114 static void keventd_create_kthread(void *_create)
 115 {
 116         struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
 117         int pid;
 118
 119         /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
 120         pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
 121         if (pid < 0) {
 122                 create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
 123         } else {
 124                 wait_for_completion(&create->started);
 125                 read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 126                 create->result = find_task_by_pid(pid);
 127                 read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 128         }
 129         complete(&create->done);
 130 }
 131
 132 /**
 133  * kthread_create - create a kthread.
 134  * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
 135  * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
 136  * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
 137  *
 138  * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
 139  * thread.  The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
 140  * it.  See also kthread_run(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
 141  *
 142  * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
 143  * argument. @threadfn can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
 144  * standalone thread for which noone will call kthread_stop(), or
 145  * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means
 146  * kthread_stop() has been called).  The return value should be zero
 147  * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
 148  *
 149  * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
 150  */
 151 struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
 152                                    void *data,
 153                                    const char namefmt[],
 154                                    ...)
 155 {
 156         struct kthread_create_info create;
 157         DECLARE_WORK(work, keventd_create_kthread, &create);
 158
 159         create.threadfn = threadfn;
 160         create.data = data;
 161         init_completion(&create.started);
 162         init_completion(&create.done);
 163
 164         /*
 165          * The workqueue needs to start up first:
 166          */
 167         if (!helper_wq)
 168                 work.func(work.data);
 169         else {
 170                 queue_work(helper_wq, &work);
 171                 wait_for_completion(&create.done);
 172         }
 173         if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
 174                 va_list args;
 175                 va_start(args, namefmt);
 176                 vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm),
 177                           namefmt, args);
 178                 va_end(args);
 179         }
 180
 181         return create.result;
 182 }
 183 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create);
 184
 185 /**
 186  * kthread_bind - bind a just-created kthread to a cpu.
 187  * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
 188  * @cpu: cpu (might not be online, must be possible) for @k to run on.
 189  *
 190  * Description: This function is equivalent to set_cpus_allowed(),
 191  * except that @cpu doesn't need to be online, and the thread must be
 192  * stopped (i.e., just returned from kthread_create().
 193  */
 194 void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
 195 {
 196         BUG_ON(k->state != TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 197         /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
 198         wait_task_inactive(k);
 199         set_task_cpu(k, cpu);
 200         k->cpus_allowed = cpumask_of_cpu(cpu);
 201 }
 202 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
 203
 204 /**
 205  * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
 206  * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
 207  *
 208  * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and
 209  * waits for it to exit.  Your threadfn() must not call do_exit()
 210  * itself if you use this function!  This can also be called after
 211  * kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread
 212  * will exit without calling threadfn().
 213  *
 214  * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
 215  * was never called.
 216  */
 217 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
 218 {
 219         int ret;
 220
 221         mutex_lock(&kthread_stop_lock);
 222
 223         /* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
 224         get_task_struct(k);
 225
 226         /* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
 227         init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 228         smp_wmb();
 229
 230         /* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
 231         kthread_stop_info.k = k;
 232         wake_up_process(k);
 233         put_task_struct(k);
 234
 235         /* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
 236         wait_for_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 237         kthread_stop_info.k = NULL;
 238         ret = kthread_stop_info.err;
 239         mutex_unlock(&kthread_stop_lock);
 240
 241         return ret;
 242 }
 243 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
 244
 245 static __init int helper_init(void)
 246 {
 247         helper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kthread");
 248         BUG_ON(!helper_wq);
 249
 250         return 0;
 251 }
 252
 253 core_initcall(helper_init);