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,
8 #include <linux/sched.h>
9 #include <linux/kthread.h>
10 #include <linux/completion.h>
11 #include <linux/err.h>
12 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
13 #include <linux/unistd.h>
14 #include <linux/file.h>
15 #include <linux/module.h>
16 #include <linux/mutex.h>
17 #include <trace/events/sched.h>
19 #define KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL (-5)
21 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock
);
22 static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list
);
23 struct task_struct
*kthreadd_task
;
25 struct kthread_create_info
27 /* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
28 int (*threadfn
)(void *data
);
31 /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */
32 struct task_struct
*result
;
33 struct completion done
;
35 struct list_head list
;
40 struct completion exited
;
43 #define to_kthread(tsk) \
44 container_of((tsk)->vfork_done, struct kthread, exited)
47 * kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
49 * When someone calls kthread_stop() on your kthread, it will be woken
50 * and this will return true. You should then return, and your return
51 * value will be passed through to kthread_stop().
53 int kthread_should_stop(void)
55 return to_kthread(current
)->should_stop
;
57 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop
);
59 static int kthread(void *_create
)
61 /* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
62 struct kthread_create_info
*create
= _create
;
63 int (*threadfn
)(void *data
) = create
->threadfn
;
64 void *data
= create
->data
;
69 init_completion(&self
.exited
);
70 current
->vfork_done
= &self
.exited
;
72 /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
73 __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
);
74 create
->result
= current
;
75 complete(&create
->done
);
79 if (!self
.should_stop
)
82 /* we can't just return, we must preserve "self" on stack */
86 static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info
*create
)
90 /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
91 pid
= kernel_thread(kthread
, create
, CLONE_FS
| CLONE_FILES
| SIGCHLD
);
93 create
->result
= ERR_PTR(pid
);
94 complete(&create
->done
);
99 * kthread_create - create a kthread.
100 * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
101 * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
102 * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
104 * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
105 * thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
106 * it. See also kthread_run(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
108 * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
109 * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
110 * standalone thread for which noone will call kthread_stop(), or
111 * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means
112 * kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero
113 * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
115 * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
117 struct task_struct
*kthread_create(int (*threadfn
)(void *data
),
119 const char namefmt
[],
122 struct kthread_create_info create
;
124 create
.threadfn
= threadfn
;
126 init_completion(&create
.done
);
128 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock
);
129 list_add_tail(&create
.list
, &kthread_create_list
);
130 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock
);
132 wake_up_process(kthreadd_task
);
133 wait_for_completion(&create
.done
);
135 if (!IS_ERR(create
.result
)) {
136 struct sched_param param
= { .sched_priority
= 0 };
139 va_start(args
, namefmt
);
140 vsnprintf(create
.result
->comm
, sizeof(create
.result
->comm
),
144 * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
145 * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
147 sched_setscheduler_nocheck(create
.result
, SCHED_NORMAL
, ¶m
);
148 set_user_nice(create
.result
, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL
);
149 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create
.result
, cpu_all_mask
);
151 return create
.result
;
153 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create
);
156 * kthread_bind - bind a just-created kthread to a cpu.
157 * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
158 * @cpu: cpu (might not be online, must be possible) for @k to run on.
160 * Description: This function is equivalent to set_cpus_allowed(),
161 * except that @cpu doesn't need to be online, and the thread must be
162 * stopped (i.e., just returned from kthread_create()).
164 void kthread_bind(struct task_struct
*k
, unsigned int cpu
)
166 /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
167 if (!wait_task_inactive(k
, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
)) {
171 set_task_cpu(k
, cpu
);
172 k
->cpus_allowed
= cpumask_of_cpu(cpu
);
173 k
->rt
.nr_cpus_allowed
= 1;
174 k
->flags
|= PF_THREAD_BOUND
;
176 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind
);
179 * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
180 * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
182 * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and
183 * waits for it to exit. Your threadfn() must not call do_exit()
184 * itself if you use this function! This can also be called after
185 * kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread
186 * will exit without calling threadfn().
188 * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
191 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct
*k
)
193 struct kthread
*kthread
;
196 trace_sched_kthread_stop(k
);
199 kthread
= to_kthread(k
);
200 barrier(); /* it might have exited */
201 if (k
->vfork_done
!= NULL
) {
202 kthread
->should_stop
= 1;
204 wait_for_completion(&kthread
->exited
);
209 trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret
);
213 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop
);
215 int kthreadd(void *unused
)
217 struct task_struct
*tsk
= current
;
219 /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
220 set_task_comm(tsk
, "kthreadd");
222 set_user_nice(tsk
, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL
);
223 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk
, cpu_all_mask
);
224 set_mems_allowed(node_possible_map
);
226 current
->flags
|= PF_NOFREEZE
| PF_FREEZER_NOSIG
;
229 set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
);
230 if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list
))
232 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING
);
234 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock
);
235 while (!list_empty(&kthread_create_list
)) {
236 struct kthread_create_info
*create
;
238 create
= list_entry(kthread_create_list
.next
,
239 struct kthread_create_info
, list
);
240 list_del_init(&create
->list
);
241 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock
);
243 create_kthread(create
);
245 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock
);
247 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock
);