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authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2016-10-11 13:55:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 15:06:33 -0700
commit35033fe9cbbf18415dfeb7e27f0d4228dfc7458a (patch)
tree8f7f5456f8ec120624d7a8c3a250e5972249d30f /kernel/kthread.c
parentfbae2d44aa1df72d0154be77eb4d71e1e34c0f8f (diff)
kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker()
The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly. This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct in one call. It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that allocates struct kthread_worker. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-7-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c23
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 12695e68ed00..f874300dfce5 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -823,3 +823,26 @@ void kthread_flush_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker)
wait_for_completion(&fwork.done);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_flush_worker);
+
+/**
+ * kthread_destroy_worker - destroy a kthread worker
+ * @worker: worker to be destroyed
+ *
+ * Flush and destroy @worker. The simple flush is enough because the kthread
+ * worker API is used only in trivial scenarios. There are no multi-step state
+ * machines needed.
+ */
+void kthread_destroy_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker)
+{
+ struct task_struct *task;
+
+ task = worker->task;
+ if (WARN_ON(!task))
+ return;
+
+ kthread_flush_worker(worker);
+ kthread_stop(task);
+ WARN_ON(!list_empty(&worker->work_list));
+ kfree(worker);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_destroy_worker);