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| author | Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> | 2019-11-04 12:22:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-11-04 12:22:02 +0100 |
| commit | c57c80467f90e5504c8df9ad3555d2c78800bf94 (patch) | |
| tree | 966043228f49ced836e69295f80305bc1ec29bc3 /include | |
| parent | b8e8c8303ff28c61046a4d0f6ea99aea609a7dc0 (diff) | |
kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads
Add a function to create a kernel thread associated with a given VM. In
particular, it ensures that the worker thread inherits the priority and
cgroups of the calling thread.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kvm_host.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index 719fc3e15ea4..52ed5f66e8f9 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -1382,4 +1382,10 @@ static inline int kvm_arch_vcpu_run_pid_change(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) } #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_VCPU_RUN_PID_CHANGE */ +typedef int (*kvm_vm_thread_fn_t)(struct kvm *kvm, uintptr_t data); + +int kvm_vm_create_worker_thread(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn, + uintptr_t data, const char *name, + struct task_struct **thread_ptr); + #endif |