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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 /include/linux/kthread.h | |
| 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kthread.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kthread.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 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 */ |