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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2005-10-31 02:01:40 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-31 04:37:17 +0300
commit61e1a9ea4b425eb8c3b4965c35fe953bd881728f (patch)
tree2dcf017eedd4a72698593c878aff3ae31e3a6b09 /include/linux/kthread.h
parent83521d3eb8dd2dfb04dd78b4733e9766f61bb47e (diff)
downloadlinux-61e1a9ea4b425eb8c3b4965c35fe953bd881728f.tar.xz
[PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem()
Enhance the kthread API by adding kthread_stop_sem, for use in stopping threads that spend their idle time waiting on a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 3fa786448db3..ebdd41fd1082 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu);
int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k);
/**
+ * kthread_stop_sem: stop a thread created by kthread_create().
+ * @k: thread created by kthread_create().
+ * @s: semaphore that @k waits on while idle.
+ *
+ * Does essentially the same thing as kthread_stop() above, but wakes
+ * @k by calling up(@s).
+ *
+ * Returns the result of threadfn(), or -EINTR if wake_up_process()
+ * was never called. */
+int kthread_stop_sem(struct task_struct *k, struct semaphore *s);
+
+/**
* kthread_should_stop: should this kthread return now?
*
* When someone calls kthread_stop on your kthread, it will be woken