kthreads: simplify the startup synchronization
We use two completions two create the kernel thread, this is a bit ugly.
kthread() wakes up create_kthread() via ->started, then create_kthread()
wakes up the caller kthread_create() via ->done. But kthread() does not
need to wait for kthread(), it can just return. Instead kthread() itself
can wake up the caller of kthread_create().
Kill kthread_create_info->started, ->done is enough. This improves the
scalability a bit and sijmplifies the code.
The only problem if kernel_thread() fails, in that case create_kthread()
must do complete(&create->done).
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 7fa4413..bc5d1f0 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
/* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
int (*threadfn)(void *data);
void *data;
- struct completion started;
/* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */
struct task_struct *result;
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@
/* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
create->result = current;
- complete(&create->started);
+ complete(&create->done);
schedule();
if (!kthread_should_stop())
@@ -95,11 +94,10 @@
/* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
- if (pid < 0)
+ if (pid < 0) {
create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
- else
- wait_for_completion(&create->started);
- complete(&create->done);
+ complete(&create->done);
+ }
}
/**
@@ -130,7 +128,6 @@
create.threadfn = threadfn;
create.data = data;
- init_completion(&create.started);
init_completion(&create.done);
spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
