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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-07-16 10:42:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-08-13 17:01:06 +0200 |
| commit | 2a1d446019f9a5983ec5a335b95e8593fdb6fa2e (patch) | |
| tree | d4867984d3655cc2e0805534601b94c7ab92bcd7 /include/linux | |
| parent | 5d01bbd111d6ff9ea9d9847774f66dff39633776 (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/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kthread.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h index 22ccf9dee177..8d816646f766 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; |