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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-12-15 14:52:16 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-12-15 14:52:16 -0300
commit8d91c1e411f55d7ea91b1183a2e9f8088fb4d5be (patch)
treee9891aa6c295060d065adffd610c4f49ecf884f3 /kernel/kthread.c
parenta71852147516bc1cb5b0b3cbd13639bfd4022dc8 (diff)
Linux-libre 4.3.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c27
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 0ef87ebe8..12d8a8f88 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -248,15 +248,16 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
* kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread.
* @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
* @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
- * @node: memory node number.
+ * @node: task and thread structures for the thread are allocated on this node
* @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
*
* Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
* thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
- * it. See also kthread_run().
+ * it. See also kthread_run(). The new thread has SCHED_NORMAL policy and
+ * is affine to all CPUs.
*
* If thread is going to be bound on a particular cpu, give its node
- * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give -1.
+ * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give NUMA_NO_NODE.
* When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
* argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
* standalone thread for which no one will call kthread_stop(), or
@@ -327,16 +328,30 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create_on_node);
-static void __kthread_bind(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu, long state)
+static void __kthread_bind_mask(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *mask, long state)
{
- /* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
+ unsigned long flags;
+
if (!wait_task_inactive(p, state)) {
WARN_ON(1);
return;
}
+
/* It's safe because the task is inactive. */
- do_set_cpus_allowed(p, cpumask_of(cpu));
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
+ do_set_cpus_allowed(p, mask);
p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY;
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->pi_lock, flags);
+}
+
+static void __kthread_bind(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu, long state)
+{
+ __kthread_bind_mask(p, cpumask_of(cpu), state);
+}
+
+void kthread_bind_mask(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *mask)
+{
+ __kthread_bind_mask(p, mask, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
}
/**