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+/* Kernel thread helper functions.
+ * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation, Rusty Russell.
+ *
+ * Creation is done via keventd, so that we get a clean environment
+ * even if we're invoked from userspace (think modprobe, hotplug cpu,
+ * etc.).
+ */
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/unistd.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <asm/semaphore.h>
+
+/*
+ * We dont want to execute off keventd since it might
+ * hold a semaphore our callers hold too:
+ */
+static struct workqueue_struct *helper_wq;
+
+struct kthread_create_info
+{
+ /* Information passed to kthread() from keventd. */
+ int (*threadfn)(void *data);
+ void *data;
+ struct completion started;
+
+ /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from keventd. */
+ struct task_struct *result;
+ struct completion done;
+};
+
+struct kthread_stop_info
+{
+ struct task_struct *k;
+ int err;
+ struct completion done;
+};
+
+/* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
+ * multiple kthread_stop calls. */
+static DECLARE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
+static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
+
+int kthread_should_stop(void)
+{
+ return (kthread_stop_info.k == current);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
+
+static void kthread_exit_files(void)
+{
+ struct fs_struct *fs;
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+
+ exit_fs(tsk); /* current->fs->count--; */
+ fs = init_task.fs;
+ tsk->fs = fs;
+ atomic_inc(&fs->count);
+ exit_files(tsk);
+ current->files = init_task.files;
+ atomic_inc(&tsk->files->count);
+}
+
+static int kthread(void *_create)
+{
+ struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
+ int (*threadfn)(void *data);
+ void *data;
+ sigset_t blocked;
+ int ret = -EINTR;
+
+ kthread_exit_files();
+
+ /* Copy data: it's on keventd's stack */
+ threadfn = create->threadfn;
+ data = create->data;
+
+ /* Block and flush all signals (in case we're not from keventd). */
+ sigfillset(&blocked);
+ sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL);
+ flush_signals(current);
+
+ /* By default we can run anywhere, unlike keventd. */
+ set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);
+
+ /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
+ __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ complete(&create->started);
+ schedule();
+
+ if (!kthread_should_stop())
+ ret = threadfn(data);
+
+ /* It might have exited on its own, w/o kthread_stop. Check. */
+ if (kthread_should_stop()) {
+ kthread_stop_info.err = ret;
+ complete(&kthread_stop_info.done);
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/* We are keventd: create a thread. */
+static void keventd_create_kthread(void *_create)
+{
+ struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
+ int pid;
+
+ /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
+ pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
+ if (pid < 0) {
+ create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
+ } else {
+ wait_for_completion(&create->started);
+ create->result = find_task_by_pid(pid);
+ }
+ complete(&create->done);
+}
+
+struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
+ void *data,
+ const char namefmt[],
+ ...)
+{
+ struct kthread_create_info create;
+ DECLARE_WORK(work, keventd_create_kthread, &create);
+
+ create.threadfn = threadfn;
+ create.data = data;
+ init_completion(&create.started);
+ init_completion(&create.done);
+
+ /*
+ * The workqueue needs to start up first:
+ */
+ if (!helper_wq)
+ work.func(work.data);
+ else {
+ queue_work(helper_wq, &work);
+ wait_for_completion(&create.done);
+ }
+ if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
+ va_list args;
+ va_start(args, namefmt);
+ vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm),
+ namefmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+ }
+
+ return create.result;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create);
+
+void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
+{
+ BUG_ON(k->state != TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
+ wait_task_inactive(k);
+ set_task_cpu(k, cpu);
+ k->cpus_allowed = cpumask_of_cpu(cpu);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
+
+int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ down(&kthread_stop_lock);
+
+ /* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
+ get_task_struct(k);
+
+ /* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
+ init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
+ wmb();
+
+ /* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
+ kthread_stop_info.k = k;
+ wake_up_process(k);
+ put_task_struct(k);
+
+ /* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
+ wait_for_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
+ kthread_stop_info.k = NULL;
+ ret = kthread_stop_info.err;
+ up(&kthread_stop_lock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
+
+static __init int helper_init(void)
+{
+ helper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kthread");
+ BUG_ON(!helper_wq);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(helper_init);
+