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  1 /* Kernel thread helper functions.
  2  *   Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation, Rusty Russell.
  3  *
  4  * Creation is done via kthreadd, 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 <linux/mutex.h>
 16 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 17 
 18 #define KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL (-5)
 19 
 20 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);
 21 static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list);
 22 struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
 23 
 24 struct kthread_create_info
 25 {
 26         /* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
 27         int (*threadfn)(void *data);
 28         void *data;
 29         struct completion started;
 30 
 31         /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */
 32         struct task_struct *result;
 33         struct completion done;
 34 
 35         struct list_head list;
 36 };
 37 
 38 struct kthread_stop_info
 39 {
 40         struct task_struct *k;
 41         int err;
 42         struct completion done;
 43 };
 44 
 45 /* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
 46  * multiple kthread_stop calls. */
 47 static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
 48 static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
 49 
 50 /**
 51  * kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
 52  *
 53  * When someone calls kthread_stop() on your kthread, it will be woken
 54  * and this will return true.  You should then return, and your return
 55  * value will be passed through to kthread_stop().
 56  */
 57 int kthread_should_stop(void)
 58 {
 59         return (kthread_stop_info.k == current);
 60 }
 61 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
 62 
 63 static int kthread(void *_create)
 64 {
 65         struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
 66         int (*threadfn)(void *data);
 67         void *data;
 68         int ret = -EINTR;
 69 
 70         /* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
 71         threadfn = create->threadfn;
 72         data = create->data;
 73 
 74         /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
 75         __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
 76         complete(&create->started);
 77         schedule();
 78 
 79         if (!kthread_should_stop())
 80                 ret = threadfn(data);
 81 
 82         /* It might have exited on its own, w/o kthread_stop.  Check. */
 83         if (kthread_should_stop()) {
 84                 kthread_stop_info.err = ret;
 85                 complete(&kthread_stop_info.done);
 86         }
 87         return 0;
 88 }
 89 
 90 static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
 91 {
 92         int pid;
 93 
 94         /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
 95         pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
 96         if (pid < 0) {
 97                 create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
 98         } else {
 99                 struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
100                 wait_for_completion(&create->started);
101                 read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
102                 create->result = find_task_by_pid(pid);
103                 read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
104                 /*
105                  * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
106                  * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
107                  */
108                 sched_setscheduler(create->result, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
109                 set_user_nice(create->result, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
110                 set_cpus_allowed(create->result, CPU_MASK_ALL);
111         }
112         complete(&create->done);
113 }
114 
115 /**
116  * kthread_create - create a kthread.
117  * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
118  * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
119  * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
120  *
121  * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
122  * thread.  The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
123  * it.  See also kthread_run(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
124  *
125  * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
126  * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
127  * standalone thread for which noone will call kthread_stop(), or
128  * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means
129  * kthread_stop() has been called).  The return value should be zero
130  * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
131  *
132  * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
133  */
134 struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
135                                    void *data,
136                                    const char namefmt[],
137                                    ...)
138 {
139         struct kthread_create_info create;
140 
141         create.threadfn = threadfn;
142         create.data = data;
143         init_completion(&create.started);
144         init_completion(&create.done);
145 
146         spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
147         list_add_tail(&create.list, &kthread_create_list);
148         wake_up_process(kthreadd_task);
149         spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
150 
151         wait_for_completion(&create.done);
152 
153         if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
154                 va_list args;
155                 va_start(args, namefmt);
156                 vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm),
157                           namefmt, args);
158                 va_end(args);
159         }
160         return create.result;
161 }
162 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create);
163 
164 /**
165  * kthread_bind - bind a just-created kthread to a cpu.
166  * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
167  * @cpu: cpu (might not be online, must be possible) for @k to run on.
168  *
169  * Description: This function is equivalent to set_cpus_allowed(),
170  * except that @cpu doesn't need to be online, and the thread must be
171  * stopped (i.e., just returned from kthread_create()).
172  */
173 void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
174 {
175         if (k->state != TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) {
176                 WARN_ON(1);
177                 return;
178         }
179         /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
180         wait_task_inactive(k);
181         set_task_cpu(k, cpu);
182         k->cpus_allowed = cpumask_of_cpu(cpu);
183 }
184 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
185 
186 /**
187  * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
188  * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
189  *
190  * Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and
191  * waits for it to exit.  Your threadfn() must not call do_exit()
192  * itself if you use this function!  This can also be called after
193  * kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread
194  * will exit without calling threadfn().
195  *
196  * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
197  * was never called.
198  */
199 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
200 {
201         int ret;
202 
203         mutex_lock(&kthread_stop_lock);
204 
205         /* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
206         get_task_struct(k);
207 
208         /* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
209         init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
210         smp_wmb();
211 
212         /* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
213         kthread_stop_info.k = k;
214         wake_up_process(k);
215         put_task_struct(k);
216 
217         /* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
218         wait_for_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
219         kthread_stop_info.k = NULL;
220         ret = kthread_stop_info.err;
221         mutex_unlock(&kthread_stop_lock);
222 
223         return ret;
224 }
225 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
226 
227 int kthreadd(void *unused)
228 {
229         struct task_struct *tsk = current;
230 
231         /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
232         set_task_comm(tsk, "kthreadd");
233         ignore_signals(tsk);
234         set_user_nice(tsk, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
235         set_cpus_allowed(tsk, CPU_MASK_ALL);
236 
237         current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
238 
239         for (;;) {
240                 set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
241                 if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list))
242                         schedule();
243                 __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
244 
245                 spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
246                 while (!list_empty(&kthread_create_list)) {
247                         struct kthread_create_info *create;
248 
249                         create = list_entry(kthread_create_list.next,
250                                             struct kthread_create_info, list);
251                         list_del_init(&create->list);
252                         spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
253 
254                         create_kthread(create);
255 
256                         spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
257                 }
258                 spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
259         }
260 
261         return 0;
262 }
263 
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