It is easy to make a mistake when one implements sleeping between kthread
iterations. We will want to do it a more uniform way. For this we will
want to set some flags in struct kthread_iterant from the current
task (kthread). This patch adds the basic infrastructure to make
it possible.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.cz>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index e34f67cb8ecf..41fb6a43a1f1 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct kthread {
void *data;
struct completion parked;
struct completion exited;
+ struct kthread_iterant *kti;
};
enum KTHREAD_BITS {
@@ -69,6 +70,11 @@ static struct kthread *to_live_kthread(struct task_struct *k)
return NULL;
}
+static struct kthread_iterant *to_kthread_iterant(struct task_struct *k)
+{
+ return __to_kthread(k->vfork_done)->kti;
+}
+
/**
* kthread_stop_current - make the current kthread to terminate a safe way
*
@@ -199,6 +205,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
self.data = data;
init_completion(&self.exited);
init_completion(&self.parked);
+ self.kti = NULL;
current->vfork_done = &self.exited;
/* If user was SIGKILLed, I release the structure. */
@@ -421,9 +428,12 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int
(*threadfn)(void *data),
*/
static int kthread_iterant_fn(void *kti_ptr)
{
+ struct kthread *kt = to_kthread(current);
struct kthread_iterant *kti = kti_ptr;
void *data = kti->data;
+ kt->kti = kti;
+
set_freezable();
if (kti->init)
--
1.8.5.6
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