On 07/01, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> All that's necessary is shortcutting indirection through kthreadd.
> ie. An exported function which looks like the following,
>
> struct kthread_clone_or_whatever(int (*threadfn).....)
> {
> struct kthread_create_info create;
> int pid;
>
> INIT create;
>
> pid = kernel_thread(kthread, &create, CLONE_FS...);
> if (pid < 0)
> return ERROR;
> wait_for_completion(&create.done);
>
> if (!IS_ERR(create.result))
> SET NAME;
> return create.result;
> }
>
> It might be a good idea to make the function take extra clone flags
> but anyways once created cloned task can be treated the same way as
> other kthreads, so nothing else needs to be changed.
This makes kthread_stop() work. Otherwise the new thread is just
the CLONE_VM child of the caller, and the caller is the user-mode
task doing ioctl() ?
Oleg.
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