From 1da5c46fa965ff90f5ffc080b6ab3fae5e227bc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:50:57 +0100 Subject: kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed commit 23196f2e5f5d "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack() / put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" is a workaround for the fragile design of struct kthread being allocated on the task stack. struct kthread in its current form should be removed, but this needs cleanups outside of kthread.c. As a first step move struct kthread away from the task stack by making it kmalloc'ed. This allows to access kthread.exited without the magic of trying to pin task stack and the try logic in to_live_kthread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Chunming Zhou Cc: Roman Pen Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161129175057.GA5330@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/kthread.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/kthread.h') diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h index a6e82a69c363..c1c3e63d52c1 100644 --- a/include/linux/kthread.h +++ b/include/linux/kthread.h @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data), __k; \ }) +void free_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *k); void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu); void kthread_bind_mask(struct task_struct *k, const struct cpumask *mask); int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b