Petr Mladek
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kthread: add kthread_create_worker*() ...
Kthread workers are currently created using the classic kthread API,
namely kthread_run(). kthread_worker_fn() is passed as the @threadfn
parameter.
This patch defines kthread_create_worker() and
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() functions that hide implementation details.
They enforce using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread. But I doubt
that there are any plans to create any alternative. In fact, I think that
we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be hard to
support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API.
The naming and function of kthread_create_worker() is inspired by the
workqueues API like the rest of the kthread worker API.
The kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() variant is motivated by the original
kthread_create_on_cpu(). Note that we need to bind per-CPU kthread
workers already when they are created. It makes the life easier.
kthread_bind() could not be used later for an already running worker.
This patch does _not_ convert existing kthread workers. The kthread
worker API need more improvements first, e.g. a function to destroy the
worker.
IMPORTANT:
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to use any format of the worker
name, in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu(). The good thing is that it
is more generic. The bad thing is that most users will need to pass the
cpu number in two parameters, e.g. kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu,
"helper/%d", cpu).
To be honest, the main motivation was to avoid the need for an empty
va_list. The only legal way was to create a helper function that would be
called with an empty list. Other attempts caused compilation warnings or
even errors on different architectures.
There were also other alternatives, for example, using #define or
splitting __kthread_create_worker(). The used solution looked like the
least ugly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-6-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
config: android: enable CONFIG_SECCOMP
2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings
2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
2016-10-05 10:11:24 -07:00
gcov: add support for gcc version >= 6
2016-07-15 14:54:27 +09:00
genirq: Make function __irq_do_set_handler() static
2016-09-25 16:46:52 -04:00
livepatch/module: make TAINT_LIVEPATCH module-specific
2016-08-26 14:42:08 +02:00
locking/lglock: Remove lglock implementation
2016-09-22 15:25:56 +02:00
oom, suspend: fix oom_killer_disable vs. pm suspend properly
2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
Merge branch 'printk-cleanups'
2016-10-10 09:29:50 -07:00
Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-10-03 12:15:00 -07:00
nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression
2016-10-05 15:44:46 +02:00
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
2016-10-07 12:24:08 -07:00
Merge branch 'stable-4.9' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
2016-10-04 14:21:41 -07:00
Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
2016-07-29 17:54:17 -07:00
wrappers for ->i_mutex access
2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
audit: cleanup prune_tree_thread
2016-04-04 09:46:47 -04:00
Merge branch 'stable-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
2016-09-01 15:55:56 -07:00
audit: add fields to exclude filter by reusing user filter
2016-06-27 11:01:00 -04:00
Merge branch 'stable-4.9' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
2016-10-04 14:21:41 -07:00
kernel: Add noaudit variant of ns_capable()
2016-06-06 20:16:18 +10:00
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
2016-10-06 09:52:23 -07:00
cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends
2015-12-03 10:24:08 -05:00
cgroup: Use lld instead of ld when printing pids controller events_limit
2016-06-21 15:03:36 -04:00
context_tracking: Switch to new static_branch API
2015-11-24 09:56:43 +01:00
Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-10-03 19:43:08 -07:00
cpuset: fix non static symbol warning
2016-09-16 11:31:17 -04:00
cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as()
2016-06-30 18:05:09 -05:00
kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg
2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
mm, oom: enforce exit_oom_victim on current task
2016-10-07 18:46:28 -07:00
thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter
2016-10-07 18:46:28 -07:00
freezer, oom: check TIF_MEMDIE on the correct task
2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
futex: Add some more function commentry
2016-09-05 17:20:18 +02:00
ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
locking/hung_task: Show all locks
2016-08-24 12:16:13 +02:00
treewide: Remove old email address
2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
powerpc updates for 4.8 #2
2016-08-05 09:00:54 -04:00
kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kernel/kcov: unproxify debugfs file's fops
2016-06-15 04:56:35 -07:00
kexec: allow architectures to override boot mapping
2016-08-02 19:35:27 -04:00
kexec: add restriction on kexec_load() segment sizes
2016-08-02 19:35:31 -04:00
kexec: fix double-free when failing to relocate the purgatory
2016-09-01 17:52:01 -07:00
kexec: move some memembers and definitions within the scope of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kprobes: include <asm/sections.h> instead of <asm-generic/sections.h>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
kexec: add a kexec_crash_loaded() function
2016-08-02 19:35:30 -04:00
kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default
2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
userns: Add per user namespace sysctls.
2016-08-08 13:18:58 -05:00
mm: fix cache mode of dax pmd mappings
2016-09-09 17:34:46 -07:00
livepatch/module: make TAINT_LIVEPATCH module-specific
2016-08-26 14:42:08 +02:00
KEYS: Move the point of trust determination to __key_link()
2016-04-11 22:43:43 +01:00
cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces
2016-02-16 13:04:58 -05:00
padata: Convert to hotplug state machine
2016-09-19 21:44:30 +02:00
x86/panic: replace smp_send_stop() with kdump friendly version in panic path
2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses
2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD
2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
profile: Convert to hotplug state machine
2016-07-15 10:41:42 +02:00
ptrace: clear TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE on ptrace detach
2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup
2016-10-11 15:06:32 -07:00
/proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users
2016-04-14 12:56:09 -07:00
seccomp: Fix tracer exit notifications during fatal signals
2016-08-30 16:12:46 -07:00
x86/signal: Add SA_{X32,IA32}_ABI sa_flags
2016-09-14 21:28:11 +02:00
smp: Allocate smp_call_on_cpu() workqueue on stack too
2016-09-22 14:49:10 +02:00
kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-10-03 19:43:08 -07:00
Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
2016-10-03 13:39:00 -07:00
prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait for mmap_sem killable
2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches
2016-09-13 14:41:36 +02:00
Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
2016-10-10 13:04:49 -07:00
kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use generic UUID library
2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
task_work: use READ_ONCE/lockless_dereference, avoid pi_lock if !task_works
2016-08-02 19:35:02 -04:00
taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit
2016-04-23 20:13:25 -04:00
torture: Convert torture_shutdown() to hrtimer
2016-08-22 10:01:49 -07:00
kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals()
2016-02-29 09:53:09 +01:00
mntns: Add a limit on the number of mount namespaces.
2016-08-31 07:28:35 -05:00
cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups
2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
smp: Add function to execute a function synchronously on a CPU
2016-09-05 13:52:39 +02:00
Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD
2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
Merge branch 'nsfs-ioctls' into HEAD
2016-09-22 20:00:36 -05:00
Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86"
2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
kthread: rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data()
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
sched/core: Get rid of 'cpu' argument in wq_worker_sleeping()
2016-03-02 10:28:47 -05:00
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