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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 22ccf9d..8d81664 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
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 @@
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;
