[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 <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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?
  *

kernel/kthread.c

@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_bind);
 
 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
+{
+	return kthread_stop_sem(k, NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
+
+int kthread_stop_sem(struct task_struct *k, struct semaphore *s)
 {
 	int ret;
 
@@ -178,6 +184,9 @@ int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
 
 	/* Now set kthread_should_stop() to true, and wake it up. */
 	kthread_stop_info.k = k;
+	if (s)
+		up(s);
+	else
 		wake_up_process(k);
 	put_task_struct(k);
 
@@ -189,7 +198,7 @@ int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
 
 	return ret;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop_sem);
 
 static __init int helper_init(void)
 {