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authorAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>2005-10-31 10:06:46 +0000
committerAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>2005-10-31 10:06:46 +0000
commit1f04c0a24b2f3cfe89c802a24396263623e3512d (patch)
treed7e2216b6e65b833c0c2b79b478d13ce17dbf296 /include/linux/kthread.h
parent07b188ab773e183871e57b33ae37bf635c9f12ba (diff)
parente2f2e58e7968f8446b1078a20a18bf8ea12b4fbc (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/
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diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 3fa786448db3..ebdd41fd1082 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu);
int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k);
/**
+ * kthread_stop_sem: stop a thread created by kthread_create().
+ * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
+ * @s: semaphore that @k waits on while idle.
+ *
+ * Does essentially the same thing as kthread_stop() above, but wakes
+ * @k by calling up(@s).
+ *
+ * Returns the result of threadfn(), or -EINTR if wake_up_process()
+ * was never called. */
+int kthread_stop_sem(struct task_struct *k, struct semaphore *s);
+
+/**
* kthread_should_stop: should this kthread return now?
*
* When someone calls kthread_stop on your kthread, it will be woken