Commit 18896451 authored Aug 06, 2015 by David Kershner Committed by Linus Torvalds Aug 07, 2015

kthread: export kthread functions



The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue being
serviced by the an s-Par service partition.  We can get a message that
something has happened with the Service Partition, when that happens, we
must not access the channel until we get a message that the service
partition is back again.

The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we get
the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume it
when the problem clears.

We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.

Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 8f2f3eb5

kernel/kthread.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ bool kthread_should_park(void)
		{
		return test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &to_kthread(current)->flags);
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_should_park);

		/**
		* kthread_freezable_should_stop - should this freezable kthread return now?
		@@ -171,6 +172,7 @@ void kthread_parkme(void)
		{
		__kthread_parkme(to_kthread(current));
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme);

		static int kthread(void *_create)
		{
		@@ -411,6 +413,7 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k)
		if (kthread)
		__kthread_unpark(k, kthread);
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_unpark);

		/**
		* kthread_park - park a thread created by kthread_create().
		@@ -441,6 +444,7 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
		}
		return ret;
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_park);

		/**
		* kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().

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