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2017-08-02kthread: fix documentation build warningJonathan Corbet1-1/+1
The kerneldoc comment for kthread_create() had an incorrect argument name, leading to a warning in the docs build. Correct it, and make one more small step toward a warning-free build. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-12-12kthread: add __printf attributesNicolas Iooss1-1/+1
When commit fbae2d44aa1d ("kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()") introduced some kthread_create_...() functions which were taking printf-like parametter, it introduced __printf attributes to some functions (e.g. kthread_create_worker()). Nevertheless some new functions were forgotten (they have been detected thanks to -Wmissing-format-attribute warning flag). Add the missing __printf attributes to the newly-introduced functions in order to detect formatting issues at build-time with -Wformat flag. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-12-08kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'edOleg Nesterov1-0/+1
commit 23196f2e5f5d "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack() / put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" is a workaround for the fragile design of struct kthread being allocated on the task stack. struct kthread in its current form should be removed, but this needs cleanups outside of kthread.c. As a first step move struct kthread away from the task stack by making it kmalloc'ed. This allows to access kthread.exited without the magic of trying to pin task stack and the try logic in to_live_kthread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Chunming Zhou <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Pen <[email protected]> Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create()Jonathan Corbet1-0/+11
This macro is referenced in other kerneldoc comments, but lacks one of its own; fix that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: better support freezable kthread workersPetr Mladek1-3/+9
This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads. It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn() but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually. I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags parameter but I believe that we will want more flags in the future. Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge the two structures. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: allow to modify delayed kthread workPetr Mladek1-0/+4
There are situations when we need to modify the delay of a delayed kthread work. For example, when the work depends on an event and the initial delay means a timeout. Then we want to queue the work immediately when the event happens. This patch implements kthread_mod_delayed_work() as inspired workqueues. It cancels the timer, removes the work from any worker list and queues it again with the given timeout. A very special case is when the work is being canceled at the same time. It might happen because of the regular kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() or by another kthread_mod_delayed_work(). In this case, we do nothing and let the other operation win. This should not normally happen as the caller is supposed to synchronize these operations a reasonable way. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: allow to cancel kthread workPetr Mladek1-0/+5
We are going to use kthread workers more widely and sometimes we will need to make sure that the work is neither pending nor running. This patch implements cancel_*_sync() operations as inspired by workqueues. Well, we are synchronized against the other operations via the worker lock, we use del_timer_sync() and a counter to count parallel cancel operations. Therefore the implementation might be easier. First, we check if a worker is assigned. If not, the work has newer been queued after it was initialized. Second, we take the worker lock. It must be the right one. The work must not be assigned to another worker unless it is initialized in between. Third, we try to cancel the timer when it exists. The timer is deleted synchronously to make sure that the timer call back is not running. We need to temporary release the worker->lock to avoid a possible deadlock with the callback. In the meantime, we set work->canceling counter to avoid any queuing. Fourth, we try to remove the work from a worker list. It might be the list of either normal or delayed works. Fifth, if the work is running, we call kthread_flush_work(). It might take an arbitrary time. We need to release the worker-lock again. In the meantime, we again block any queuing by the canceling counter. As already mentioned, the check for a pending kthread work is done under a lock. In compare with workqueues, we do not need to fight for a single PENDING bit to block other operations. Therefore we do not suffer from the thundering storm problem and all parallel canceling jobs might use kthread_flush_work(). Any queuing is blocked until the counter gets zero. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: initial support for delayed kthread workPetr Mladek1-0/+33
We are going to use kthread_worker more widely and delayed works will be pretty useful. The implementation is inspired by workqueues. It uses a timer to queue the work after the requested delay. If the delay is zero, the work is queued immediately. In compare with workqueues, each work is associated with a single worker (kthread). Therefore the implementation could be much easier. In particular, we use the worker->lock to synchronize all the operations with the work. We do not need any atomic operation with a flags variable. In fact, we do not need any state variable at all. Instead, we add a list of delayed works into the worker. Then the pending work is listed either in the list of queued or delayed works. And the existing check of pending works is the same even for the delayed ones. A work must not be assigned to another worker unless reinitialized. Therefore the timer handler might expect that dwork->work->worker is valid and it could simply take the lock. We just add some sanity checks to help with debugging a potential misuse. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker()Petr Mladek1-0/+2
The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly. This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct in one call. It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that allocates struct kthread_worker. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()Petr Mladek1-0/+7
Kthread workers are currently created using the classic kthread API, namely kthread_run(). kthread_worker_fn() is passed as the @threadfn parameter. This patch defines kthread_create_worker() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() functions that hide implementation details. They enforce using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread. But I doubt that there are any plans to create any alternative. In fact, I think that we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be hard to support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API. The naming and function of kthread_create_worker() is inspired by the workqueues API like the rest of the kthread worker API. The kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() variant is motivated by the original kthread_create_on_cpu(). Note that we need to bind per-CPU kthread workers already when they are created. It makes the life easier. kthread_bind() could not be used later for an already running worker. This patch does _not_ convert existing kthread workers. The kthread worker API need more improvements first, e.g. a function to destroy the worker. IMPORTANT: kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to use any format of the worker name, in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu(). The good thing is that it is more generic. The bad thing is that most users will need to pass the cpu number in two parameters, e.g. kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu, "helper/%d", cpu). To be honest, the main motivation was to avoid the need for an empty va_list. The only legal way was to create a helper function that would be called with an empty list. Other attempts caused compilation warnings or even errors on different architectures. There were also other alternatives, for example, using #define or splitting __kthread_create_worker(). The used solution looked like the least ugly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: kthread worker API cleanupPetr Mladek1-9/+9
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the subsystem. The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues. Each worker has a dedicated kthread. It runs a generic function that process queued works. It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem. This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by kthread_: __init_kthread_worker() -> __kthread_init_worker() init_kthread_worker() -> kthread_init_worker() init_kthread_work() -> kthread_init_work() insert_kthread_work() -> kthread_insert_work() queue_kthread_work() -> kthread_queue_work() flush_kthread_work() -> kthread_flush_work() flush_kthread_worker() -> kthread_flush_worker() Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has precedence over the subsystem names. Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several reasons for this solution: + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize" aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer". + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros + init() functions are used close to the other kthread() functions. It looks much better if all the functions use the same scheme. + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related to the init() function. Again it looks better if all functions use the same naming scheme. + there are several precedents for such init() function names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(), jump_label_init_type(), regmap_init_mmio_clk(), + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before. [[email protected]: fix linux-next merge conflict] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2016-10-11kthread: rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data()Petr Mladek1-1/+1
Patch series "kthread: Kthread worker API improvements" The intention of this patchset is to make it easier to manipulate and maintain kthreads. Especially, I want to replace all the custom main cycles with a generic one. Also I want to make the kthreads sleep in a consistent state in a common place when there is no work. This patch (of 11): A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the subsystem. This patch fixes the name of probe_kthread_data(). The other wrong functions names are part of the kthread worker API and will be fixed separately. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-09-04kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentationAndrew Morton1-1/+1
- Make it clear that the `node' arg refers to memory allocations only: kthread_create_on_node() does not pin the new thread to that node's CPUs. - Encourage the use of NUMA_NO_NODE. [[email protected]: use NUMA_NO_NODE in kthread_create() also] Cc: Nathan Zimmer <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2015-08-12sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity()Peter Zijlstra1-0/+1
Because sched_setscheduler() checks p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY without locks, a caller might observe an old value and race with the set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call from __kthread_bind() and effectively undo it: __kthread_bind() do_set_cpus_allowed() <SYSCALL> sched_setaffinity() if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITIY) set_cpus_allowed_ptr() p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY Fix the bug by putting everything under the regular scheduler locks. This also closes a hole in the serialization of task_struct::{nr_,}cpus_allowed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2014-07-28kthread_work: remove the unused wait_queue_headLai Jiangshan1-11/+2
The wait_queue_head_t kthread_work->done is unused since flush_kthread_work() has been re-implemented. Let's remove it including the initialization code. This makes DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK_ONSTACK() unnecessary, removed. tj: Updated description. Removed DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK_ONSTACK(). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2013-04-30kthread: implement probe_kthread_data()Tejun Heo1-0/+1
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. For example, after writeback is converted to use workqueue instead of priviate thread pool, there's no easy to tell which backing device a writeback work item was working on at the time of task dump, which, according to our writeback brethren, is important in tracking down issues with a lot of mounted file systems on a lot of different devices. This patchset implements a way for a work function to mark its execution instance so that task dump of the worker task includes information to indicate what the work item was doing. An example WARN dump would look like the following. WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1015 bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2b4/0x3c0() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Pid: 28 Comm: kworker/u18:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #24 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:16) ffffffff820a3a98 ffff88015b927cb8 ffffffff81c61855 ffff88015b927cf8 ffffffff8108f500 0000000000000000 ffff88007a171948 ffff88007a1716b0 ffff88015b49df00 ffff88015b8d3940 0000000000000000 ffff88015b927d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61855>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f500>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 ... This patch: Implement probe_kthread_data() which returns kthread_data if accessible. The function is equivalent to kthread_data() except that the specified @task may not be a kthread or its vfork_done is already cleared rendering struct kthread inaccessible. In the former case, probe_kthread_data() may return any value. In the latter, NULL. This will be used to safely print debug information without affecting synchronization in the normal paths. Workqueue debug info printing on dump_stack() and friends will make use of it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2012-08-13kthread: Implement park/unpark facilityThomas Gleixner1-1/+10
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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2012-07-22kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work ↵Tejun Heo1-6/+2
item being executed kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime priority). It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not allowing work items to be freed while being executed. While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases. Also, removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code easier to understand. This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2011-11-21freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop()Tejun Heo1-0/+1
Writeback and thinkpad_acpi have been using thaw_process() to prevent deadlock between the freezer and kthread_stop(); unfortunately, this is inherently racy - nothing prevents freezing from happening between thaw_process() and kthread_stop(). This patch implements kthread_freezable_should_stop() which enters refrigerator if necessary but is guaranteed to return if kthread_stop() is invoked. Both thaw_process() users are converted to use the new function. Note that this deadlock condition exists for many of freezable kthreads. They need to be converted to use the new should_stop or freezable workqueue. Tested with synthetic test case. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
2011-10-31treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...)))Joe Perches1-2/+2
Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification. Standardized the location of __printf too. Done via script and a little typing. $ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \ grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \ xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }' [[email protected]: revert arch bits] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2011-03-22kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node()Eric Dumazet1-4/+10
All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct. This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter to parameters already used by kthread_create(). This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its memory node if possible. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2011-01-27kthread: Replace deprecated spinlock initializationThomas Gleixner1-1/+1
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCK is deprecated. Use the lockdep capable variant instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2010-12-22kthread_work: make lockdep happyYong Zhang1-10/+35
spinlock in kthread_worker and wait_queue_head in kthread_work both should be lockdep sensible, so change the interface to make it suiltable for CONFIG_LOCKDEP. tj: comment update Reported-by: Nicolas <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <[email protected]> Tested-by: Andy Walls <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2010-06-29kthread: implement kthread_data()Tejun Heo1-0/+1
Implement kthread_data() which takes @task pointing to a kthread and returns @data specified when creating the kthread. The caller is responsible for ensuring the validity of @task when calling this function. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
2010-06-29kthread: implement kthread_workerTejun Heo1-0/+64
Implement simple work processor for kthread. This is to ease using kthread. Single thread workqueue used to be used for things like this but workqueue won't guarantee fixed kthread association anymore to enable worker sharing. This can be used in cases where specific kthread association is necessary, for example, when it should have RT priority or be assigned to certain cgroup. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
2008-07-24Label kthread_create() with printf attribute tag.Rusty Russell1-1/+2
Obvious misc patch been in my queue (& linux-next) for over a cycle. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2007-05-09kthread: don't depend on work queuesEric W. Biederman1-0/+3
Currently there is a circular reference between work queue initialization and kthread initialization. This prevents the kthread infrastructure from initializing until after work queues have been initialized. We want the properties of tasks created with kthread_create to be as close as possible to the init_task and to not be contaminated by user processes. The later we start our kthreadd that creates these tasks the harder it is to avoid contamination from user processes and the more of a mess we have to clean up because the defaults have changed on us. So this patch modifies the kthread support to not use work queues but to instead use a simple list of structures, and to have kthreadd start from init_task immediately after our kernel thread that execs /sbin/init. By being a true child of init_task we only have to change those process settings that we want to have different from init_task, such as our process name, the cpus that are allowed, blocking all signals and setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN so that all of our children are reaped automatically. By being a true child of init_task we also naturally get our ppid set to 0 and do not wind up as a child of PID == 1. Ensuring that tasks generated by kthread_create will not slow down the functioning of the wait family of functions. [[email protected]: use interruptible sleeps] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-07-14[PATCH] remove kernel/kthread.c:kthread_stop_sem()Adrian Bunk1-1/+0
Remove the now-unneeded kthread_stop_sem(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> Acked-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2006-06-25[PATCH] kthread: move kernel-doc and put it into DocBookRandy Dunlap1-62/+3
Move kthread API kernel-doc from kthread.h to kthread.c & fix it. Add kthread API to kernel-api DocBook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2005-10-30[PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem()Alan Stern1-0/+12
Enhance the kthread API by adding kthread_stop_sem, for use in stopping threads that spend their idle time waiting on a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds1-0/+81
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!