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>
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index bc5d1f0..9b1a7de 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -35,17 +35,13 @@
struct list_head list;
};
-struct kthread_stop_info
-{
- struct task_struct *k;
- int err;
- struct completion done;
+struct kthread {
+ int should_stop;
+ struct completion exited;
};
-/* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
- * multiple kthread_stop calls. */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
-static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
+#define to_kthread(tsk) \
+ container_of((tsk)->vfork_done, struct kthread, exited)
/**
* kthread_should_stop - should this kthread return now?
@@ -56,20 +52,22 @@
*/
int kthread_should_stop(void)
{
- return (kthread_stop_info.k == current);
+ return to_kthread(current)->should_stop;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_stop);
static int kthread(void *_create)
{
- struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
- int (*threadfn)(void *data);
- void *data;
- int ret = -EINTR;
-
/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
- threadfn = create->threadfn;
- data = create->data;
+ 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);
@@ -77,15 +75,12 @@
complete(&create->done);
schedule();
- if (!kthread_should_stop())
+ ret = -EINTR;
+ if (!self.should_stop)
ret = threadfn(data);
- /* It might have exited on its own, w/o kthread_stop. Check. */
- if (kthread_should_stop()) {
- kthread_stop_info.err = ret;
- complete(&kthread_stop_info.done);
- }
- return 0;
+ /* we can't just return, we must preserve "self" on stack */
+ do_exit(ret);
}
static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
@@ -195,30 +190,22 @@
*/
int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
{
+ struct kthread *kthread;
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&kthread_stop_lock);
-
- /* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
+ trace_sched_kthread_stop(k);
get_task_struct(k);
- trace_sched_kthread_stop(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;
- /* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
- init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
- smp_wmb();
-
- /* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
- kthread_stop_info.k = k;
- wake_up_process(k);
put_task_struct(k);
-
- /* Once it dies, reset stop ptr, gather result and we're done. */
- wait_for_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
- kthread_stop_info.k = NULL;
- ret = kthread_stop_info.err;
- mutex_unlock(&kthread_stop_lock);
-
trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
return ret;
