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 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock
);
20 static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list
);
21 struct task_struct
*kthreadd_task
;
23 struct kthread_create_info
25 /* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
26 int (*threadfn
)(void *data
);
29 /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */
30 struct task_struct
*result
;
31 struct completion done
;
33 struct list_head list
;
38 struct completion exited
;
41 #define to_kthread(tsk) \
42 container_of((tsk)->vfork_done, struct kthread, exited)
45 * kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
47 * When someone calls kthread_stop() on your kthread, it will be woken
48 * and this will return true. You should then return, and your return
49 * value will be passed through to kthread_stop().
51 int kthread_should_stop(void)
53 return to_kthread(current
)->should_stop
;
55 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop
);
57 static int kthread(void *_create
)
59 /* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
60 struct kthread_create_info
*create
= _create
;
61 int (*threadfn
)(void *data
) = create
->threadfn
;
62 void *data
= create
->data
;
67 init_completion(&self
.exited
);
68 current
->vfork_done
= &self
.exited
;
70 /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
71 __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
);
72 create
->result
= current
;
73 complete(&create
->done
);
77 if (!self
.should_stop
)
80 /* we can't just return, we must preserve "self" on stack */
84 static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info
*create
)
88 /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
89 pid
= kernel_thread(kthread
, create
, CLONE_FS
| CLONE_FILES
| SIGCHLD
);
91 create
->result
= ERR_PTR(pid
);
92 complete(&create
->done
);
97 * kthread_create - create a kthread.
98 * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
99 * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
100 * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
102 * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
103 * thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
104 * it. See also kthread_run(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
106 * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
107 * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
108 * standalone thread for which noone will call kthread_stop(), or
109 * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means
110 * kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero
111 * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
113 * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
115 struct task_struct
*kthread_create(int (*threadfn
)(void *data
),
117 const char namefmt
[],
120 struct kthread_create_info create
;
122 create
.threadfn
= threadfn
;
124 init_completion(&create
.done
);
126 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock
);
127 list_add_tail(&create
.list
, &kthread_create_list
);
128 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock
);
130 wake_up_process(kthreadd_task
);
131 wait_for_completion(&create
.done
);
133 if (!IS_ERR(create
.result
)) {
134 struct sched_param param
= { .sched_priority
= 0 };
137 va_start(args
, namefmt
);
138 vsnprintf(create
.result
->comm
, sizeof(create
.result
->comm
),
142 * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
143 * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
145 sched_setscheduler_nocheck(create
.result
, SCHED_NORMAL
, ¶m
);
146 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create
.result
, cpu_all_mask
);
148 return create
.result
;
150 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create
);
153 * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
154 * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
156 * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and
157 * waits for it to exit. This can also be called after kthread_create()
158 * instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread will exit without
159 * calling threadfn().
161 * If threadfn() may call do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure
162 * task_struct can't go away.
164 * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
167 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct
*k
)
169 struct kthread
*kthread
;
172 trace_sched_kthread_stop(k
);
175 kthread
= to_kthread(k
);
176 barrier(); /* it might have exited */
177 if (k
->vfork_done
!= NULL
) {
178 kthread
->should_stop
= 1;
180 wait_for_completion(&kthread
->exited
);
185 trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret
);
189 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop
);
191 int kthreadd(void *unused
)
193 struct task_struct
*tsk
= current
;
195 /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
196 set_task_comm(tsk
, "kthreadd");
198 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk
, cpu_all_mask
);
199 set_mems_allowed(node_possible_map
);
201 current
->flags
|= PF_NOFREEZE
| PF_FREEZER_NOSIG
;
204 set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
);
205 if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list
))
207 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING
);
209 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock
);
210 while (!list_empty(&kthread_create_list
)) {
211 struct kthread_create_info
*create
;
213 create
= list_entry(kthread_create_list
.next
,
214 struct kthread_create_info
, list
);
215 list_del_init(&create
->list
);
216 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock
);
218 create_kthread(create
);
220 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock
);
222 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock
);