Commit 52782c92 authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields

kthread: save thread function

It's handy to keep the kthread_fn just as a unique cookie to identify
classes of kthreads.  E.g. if you can verify that a given task is
running your thread_fn, then you may know what sort of type kthread_data
points to.

We'll use this in nfsd to pass some information into the vfs.  Note it
will need kthread_data() exported too.
Original-patch-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent 31fb4bf5
......@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ bool kthread_should_stop(void);
bool kthread_should_park(void);
bool __kthread_should_park(struct task_struct *k);
bool kthread_freezable_should_stop(bool *was_frozen);
void *kthread_func(struct task_struct *k);
void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *k);
void *kthread_probe_data(struct task_struct *k);
int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k);
......
......@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct kthread_create_info
struct kthread {
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int cpu;
int (*threadfn)(void *);
void *data;
struct completion parked;
struct completion exited;
......@@ -152,6 +153,20 @@ bool kthread_freezable_should_stop(bool *was_frozen)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_freezable_should_stop);
/**
* kthread_func - return the function specified on kthread creation
* @task: kthread task in question
*
* Returns NULL if the task is not a kthread.
*/
void *kthread_func(struct task_struct *task)
{
if (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
return to_kthread(task)->threadfn;
return NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_func);
/**
* kthread_data - return data value specified on kthread creation
* @task: kthread task in question
......@@ -164,6 +179,7 @@ void *kthread_data(struct task_struct *task)
{
return to_kthread(task)->data;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_data);
/**
* kthread_probe_data - speculative version of kthread_data()
......@@ -244,6 +260,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
do_exit(-ENOMEM);
}
self->threadfn = threadfn;
self->data = data;
init_completion(&self->exited);
init_completion(&self->parked);
......
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