user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kthread.h, branch v3.5-rc2

freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop()

2011-11-21T20:32:23Z

Writeback and thinkpad_acpi have been using thaw_process() to prevent deadlock between the freezer and kthread_stop(); unfortunately, this is inherently racy - nothing prevents freezing from happening between thaw_process() and kthread_stop(). This patch implements kthread_freezable_should_stop() which enters refrigerator if necessary but is guaranteed to return if kthread_stop() is invoked. Both thaw_process() users are converted to use the new function. Note that this deadlock condition exists for many of freezable kthreads. They need to be converted to use the new should_stop or freezable workqueue. Tested with synthetic test case. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Oleg Nesterov

treewide: use printf not attribute__((format(printf,...)))

2011-11-01T00:30:54Z

Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification. Standardized the location of __printf too. Done via script and a little typing. $ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \ grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \ xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*$\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*$\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }' [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: NUMA aware kthread_create_on_node()

2011-03-23T00:44:01Z

All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct. This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_node(), adding a 'cpu' parameter to parameters already used by kthread_create(). This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its memory node if possible. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: David S. Miller Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: David Howells Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization

2011-01-27T11:30:37Z

SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCK is deprecated. Use the lockdep capable variant instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kthread_work: make lockdep happy

2010-12-22T09:27:53Z

spinlock in kthread_worker and wait_queue_head in kthread_work both should be lockdep sensible, so change the interface to make it suiltable for CONFIG_LOCKDEP. tj: comment update Reported-by: Nicolas Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang Signed-off-by: Andy Walls Tested-by: Andy Walls Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

kthread: implement kthread_data()

2010-06-29T08:07:09Z

Implement kthread_data() which takes @task pointing to a kthread and returns @data specified when creating the kthread. The caller is responsible for ensuring the validity of @task when calling this function. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

kthread: implement kthread_worker

2010-06-29T08:07:09Z

Implement simple work processor for kthread. This is to ease using kthread. Single thread workqueue used to be used for things like this but workqueue won't guarantee fixed kthread association anymore to enable worker sharing. This can be used in cases where specific kthread association is necessary, for example, when it should have RT priority or be assigned to certain cgroup. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton

Label kthread_create() with printf attribute tag.

2008-07-25T02:11:15Z

Obvious misc patch been in my queue (& linux-next) for over a cycle. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: don't depend on work queues

2007-05-09T19:30:53Z

Currently there is a circular reference between work queue initialization and kthread initialization. This prevents the kthread infrastructure from initializing until after work queues have been initialized. We want the properties of tasks created with kthread_create to be as close as possible to the init_task and to not be contaminated by user processes. The later we start our kthreadd that creates these tasks the harder it is to avoid contamination from user processes and the more of a mess we have to clean up because the defaults have changed on us. So this patch modifies the kthread support to not use work queues but to instead use a simple list of structures, and to have kthreadd start from init_task immediately after our kernel thread that execs /sbin/init. By being a true child of init_task we only have to change those process settings that we want to have different from init_task, such as our process name, the cpus that are allowed, blocking all signals and setting SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN so that all of our children are reaped automatically. By being a true child of init_task we also naturally get our ppid set to 0 and do not wind up as a child of PID == 1. Ensuring that tasks generated by kthread_create will not slow down the functioning of the wait family of functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use interruptible sleeps] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove kernel/kthread.c:kthread_stop_sem()

2006-07-15T04:53:52Z

Remove the now-unneeded kthread_stop_sem(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds