linux/kernel/kthread.c
Oleg Nesterov 63706172f3 kthreads: rework kthread_stop()
Based on Eric's patch which in turn was based on my patch.

kthread_stop() has the nasty problems:

- it runs unpredictably long with the global semaphore held.

- it deadlocks if kthread itself does kthread_stop() before it obeys
  the kthread_should_stop() request.

- it is not useable if kthread exits on its own, see for example the
  ugly "wait_to_die:" hack in migration_thread()

- it is not possible to just tell kthread it should stop, we must always
  wait for its exit.

With this patch kthread() allocates all neccesary data (struct kthread) on
its own stack, globals kthread_stop_xxx are deleted.  ->vfork_done is used
as a pointer into "struct kthread", this means kthread_stop() can easily
wait for kthread's exit.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:54 -07:00

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/* Kernel thread helper functions.
* Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation, Rusty Russell.
*
* Creation is done via kthreadd, so that we get a clean environment
* even if we're invoked from userspace (think modprobe, hotplug cpu,
* etc.).
*/
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/cpuset.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <trace/events/sched.h>
#define KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL (-5)
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);
static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list);
struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
struct kthread_create_info
{
/* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
int (*threadfn)(void *data);
void *data;
/* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */
struct task_struct *result;
struct completion done;
struct list_head list;
};
struct kthread {
int should_stop;
struct completion exited;
};
#define to_kthread(tsk) \
container_of((tsk)->vfork_done, struct kthread, exited)
/**
* kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
*
* When someone calls kthread_stop() on your kthread, it will be woken
* and this will return true. You should then return, and your return
* value will be passed through to kthread_stop().
*/
int kthread_should_stop(void)
{
return to_kthread(current)->should_stop;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
static int kthread(void *_create)
{
/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
int (*threadfn)(void *data) = create->threadfn;
void *data = create->data;
struct kthread self;
int ret;
self.should_stop = 0;
init_completion(&self.exited);
current->vfork_done = &self.exited;
/* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
create->result = current;
complete(&create->done);
schedule();
ret = -EINTR;
if (!self.should_stop)
ret = threadfn(data);
/* we can't just return, we must preserve "self" on stack */
do_exit(ret);
}
static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
{
int pid;
/* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
if (pid < 0) {
create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
complete(&create->done);
}
}
/**
* kthread_create - create a kthread.
* @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
* @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
* @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(), kthread_create_on_cpu().
*
* 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 noone will call kthread_stop(), or
* return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means
* kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero
* or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop().
*
* Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
*/
struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
void *data,
const char namefmt[],
...)
{
struct kthread_create_info create;
create.threadfn = threadfn;
create.data = data;
init_completion(&create.done);
spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
list_add_tail(&create.list, &kthread_create_list);
spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
wake_up_process(kthreadd_task);
wait_for_completion(&create.done);
if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
va_list args;
va_start(args, namefmt);
vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm),
namefmt, args);
va_end(args);
/*
* root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
* The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
*/
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(create.result, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
set_user_nice(create.result, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create.result, cpu_all_mask);
}
return create.result;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create);
/**
* kthread_bind - bind a just-created kthread to a cpu.
* @k: thread created by kthread_create().
* @cpu: cpu (might not be online, must be possible) for @k to run on.
*
* Description: This function is equivalent to set_cpus_allowed(),
* except that @cpu doesn't need to be online, and the thread must be
* stopped (i.e., just returned from kthread_create()).
*/
void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
{
/* Must have done schedule() in kthread() before we set_task_cpu */
if (!wait_task_inactive(k, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)) {
WARN_ON(1);
return;
}
set_task_cpu(k, cpu);
k->cpus_allowed = cpumask_of_cpu(cpu);
k->rt.nr_cpus_allowed = 1;
k->flags |= PF_THREAD_BOUND;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
/**
* kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
* @k: thread created by kthread_create().
*
* Sets kthread_should_stop() for @k to return true, wakes it, and
* waits for it to exit. Your threadfn() must not call do_exit()
* itself if you use this function! This can also be called after
* kthread_create() instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread
* will exit without calling threadfn().
*
* Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()
* was never called.
*/
int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
{
struct kthread *kthread;
int ret;
trace_sched_kthread_stop(k);
get_task_struct(k);
kthread = to_kthread(k);
barrier(); /* it might have exited */
if (k->vfork_done != NULL) {
kthread->should_stop = 1;
wake_up_process(k);
wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited);
}
ret = k->exit_code;
put_task_struct(k);
trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
int kthreadd(void *unused)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
/* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
set_task_comm(tsk, "kthreadd");
ignore_signals(tsk);
set_user_nice(tsk, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL);
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpu_all_mask);
set_mems_allowed(node_possible_map);
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE | PF_FREEZER_NOSIG;
for (;;) {
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list))
schedule();
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
while (!list_empty(&kthread_create_list)) {
struct kthread_create_info *create;
create = list_entry(kthread_create_list.next,
struct kthread_create_info, list);
list_del_init(&create->list);
spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
create_kthread(create);
spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
}
return 0;
}