RHEL4/kernel/kthread.c
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   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 <asm/semaphore.h>
  16
  17/*
  18 * We dont want to execute off keventd since it might
  19 * hold a semaphore our callers hold too:
  20 */
  21static struct workqueue_struct *helper_wq;
  22
  23struct kthread_create_info
  24{
  25        /* Information passed to kthread() from keventd. */
  26        int (*threadfn)(void *data);
  27        void *data;
  28        struct completion started;
  29
  30        /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from keventd. */
  31        struct task_struct *result;
  32        struct completion done;
  33};
  34
  35struct kthread_stop_info
  36{
  37        struct task_struct *k;
  38        int err;
  39        struct completion done;
  40};
  41
  42/* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
  43 * multiple kthread_stop calls. */
  44static DECLARE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
  45static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
  46
  47int kthread_should_stop(void)
  48{
  49        return (kthread_stop_info.k == current);
  50}
  51EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
  52
  53static void kthread_exit_files(void)
  54{
  55        struct fs_struct *fs;
  56        struct task_struct *tsk = current;
  57
  58        exit_fs(tsk);           /* current->fs->count--; */
  59        fs = init_task.fs;
  60        tsk->fs = fs;
  61        atomic_inc(&fs->count);
  62        exit_files(tsk);
  63        current->files = init_task.files;
  64        atomic_inc(&tsk->files->count);
  65}
  66
  67static int kthread(void *_create)
  68{
  69        struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
  70        int (*threadfn)(void *data);
  71        void *data;
  72        sigset_t blocked;
  73        int ret = -EINTR;
  74
  75        kthread_exit_files();
  76
  77        /* Copy data: it's on keventd's stack */
  78        threadfn = create->threadfn;
  79        data = create->data;
  80
  81        /* Block and flush all signals (in case we're not from keventd). */
  82        sigfillset(&blocked);
  83        sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL);
  84        flush_signals(current);
  85
  86        /* By default we can run anywhere, unlike keventd. */
  87        set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
  88
  89        /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
  90        __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
  91        complete(&create->started);
  92        schedule();
  93
  94        if (!kthread_should_stop())
  95                ret = threadfn(data);
  96
  97        /* It might have exited on its own, w/o kthread_stop.  Check. */
  98        if (kthread_should_stop()) {
  99                kthread_stop_info.err = ret;
 100                complete(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 101        }
 102        return 0;
 103}
 104
 105/* We are keventd: create a thread. */
 106static void keventd_create_kthread(void *_create)
 107{
 108        struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
 109        int pid;
 110
 111        /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
 112        pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
 113        if (pid < 0) {
 114                create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
 115        } else {
 116                wait_for_completion(&create->started);
 117                create->result = find_task_by_pid(pid);
 118        }
 119        complete(&create->done);
 120}
 121
 122struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
 123                                   void *data,
 124                                   const char namefmt[],
 125                                   ...)
 126{
 127        struct kthread_create_info create;
 128        DECLARE_WORK(work, keventd_create_kthread, &create);
 129
 130        create.threadfn = threadfn;
 131        create.data = data;
 132        init_completion(&create.started);
 133        init_completion(&create.done);
 134
 135        /*
 136         * The workqueue needs to start up first:
 137         */
 138        if (!helper_wq)
 139                work.func(work.data);
 140        else {
 141                queue_work(helper_wq, &work);
 142                wait_for_completion(&create.done);
 143        }
 144        if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
 145                va_list args;
 146                va_start(args, namefmt);
 147                vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm),
 148                          namefmt, args);
 149                va_end(args);
 150        }
 151
 152        return create.result;
 153}
 154EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create);
 155
 156void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
 157{
 158        BUG_ON(k->state != TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 159        /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
 160        wait_task_inactive(k);
 161        set_task_cpu(k, cpu);
 162        k->cpus_allowed = cpumask_of_cpu(cpu);
 163}
 164EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
 165
 166int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
 167{
 168        int ret;
 169
 170        down(&kthread_stop_lock);
 171
 172        /* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
 173        get_task_struct(k);
 174
 175        /* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
 176        init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 177        wmb();
 178
 179        /* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
 180        kthread_stop_info.k = k;
 181        wake_up_process(k);
 182        put_task_struct(k);
 183
 184        /* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
 185        wait_for_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 186        kthread_stop_info.k = NULL;
 187        ret = kthread_stop_info.err;
 188        up(&kthread_stop_lock);
 189
 190        return ret;
 191}
 192EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
 193
 194static __init int helper_init(void)
 195{
 196        helper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kthread");
 197        BUG_ON(!helper_wq);
 198
 199        return 0;
 200}
 201core_initcall(helper_init);
 202