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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-07-16 10:42:36 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-08-13 17:01:06 +0200
commit2a1d446019f9a5983ec5a335b95e8593fdb6fa2e (patch)
treed4867984d3655cc2e0805534601b94c7ab92bcd7 /include
parent5d01bbd111d6ff9ea9d9847774f66dff39633776 (diff)
kthread: Implement park/unpark facility
To avoid the full teardown/setup of per cpu kthreads in the case of cpu hot(un)plug, provide a facility which allows to put the kthread into a park position and unpark it when the cpu comes online again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.236618824@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kthread.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 22ccf9dee17..8d816646f76 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, -1, namefmt, ##arg)
+struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
+ void *data,
+ unsigned int cpu,
+ const char *namefmt);
+
/**
* kthread_run - create and wake a thread.
* @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
@@ -34,9 +39,13 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu);
int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k);
-int kthread_should_stop(void);
+bool kthread_should_stop(void);
+bool kthread_should_park(void);
bool kthread_freezable_should_stop(bool *was_frozen);
void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *k);
+int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k);
+void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k);
+void kthread_parkme(void);
int kthreadd(void *unused);
extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;