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| author | Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2016-10-11 13:55:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -0700 |
| commit | 35033fe9cbbf18415dfeb7e27f0d4228dfc7458a (patch) | |
| tree | 8f7f5456f8ec120624d7a8c3a250e5972249d30f | |
| parent | fbae2d44aa1df72d0154be77eb4d71e1e34c0f8f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-35033fe9cbbf18415dfeb7e27f0d4228dfc7458a.tar.gz lwn-35033fe9cbbf18415dfeb7e27f0d4228dfc7458a.zip | |
kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker()
The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly.
This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct
in one call.
It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that
allocates struct kthread_worker.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-7-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kthread.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 23 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h index daeb2befbabf..afc8939da861 100644 --- a/include/linux/kthread.h +++ b/include/linux/kthread.h @@ -136,4 +136,6 @@ bool kthread_queue_work(struct kthread_worker *worker, void kthread_flush_work(struct kthread_work *work); void kthread_flush_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker); +void kthread_destroy_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker); + #endif /* _LINUX_KTHREAD_H */ diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 12695e68ed00..f874300dfce5 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -823,3 +823,26 @@ void kthread_flush_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker) wait_for_completion(&fwork.done); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_flush_worker); + +/** + * kthread_destroy_worker - destroy a kthread worker + * @worker: worker to be destroyed + * + * Flush and destroy @worker. The simple flush is enough because the kthread + * worker API is used only in trivial scenarios. There are no multi-step state + * machines needed. + */ +void kthread_destroy_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker) +{ + struct task_struct *task; + + task = worker->task; + if (WARN_ON(!task)) + return; + + kthread_flush_worker(worker); + kthread_stop(task); + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&worker->work_list)); + kfree(worker); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_destroy_worker); |