From 61e1a9ea4b425eb8c3b4965c35fe953bd881728f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Stern Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:01:40 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/kthread.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h index 3fa786448db..ebdd41fd108 100644 --- a/include/linux/kthread.h +++ b/include/linux/kthread.h @@ -69,6 +69,18 @@ void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu); * was never called. */ 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? * -- cgit v1.2.3