Re: [PATCH] kthread: Make kthread_create() killable.

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

Add lkml.

On 09/13, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
> This patch makes kthread_create() killable,

Probably makes sense...

> @@ -255,36 +266,59 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
>  					   const char namefmt[],
>  					   ...)
>  {
> -	struct kthread_create_info create;
> -
> -	create.threadfn = threadfn;
> -	create.data = data;
> -	create.node = node;
> -	init_completion(&create.done);
> +	struct task_struct *task;
> +	struct kthread_create_info *create = kmalloc(sizeof(*create),
> +						     GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +	if (!create)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +	create->threadfn = threadfn;
> +	create->data = data;
> +	create->node = node;
> +	create->owner = (void *) 1;
> +	init_completion(&create->done);
>  
>  	spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);
> -	list_add_tail(&create.list, &kthread_create_list);
> +	list_add_tail(&create->list, &kthread_create_list);
>  	spin_unlock(&kthread_create_lock);
>  
>  	wake_up_process(kthreadd_task);
> -	wait_for_completion(&create.done);
> -
> -	if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) {
> +	/*
> +	 * Wait for completion in killable state, for I might be chosen by
> +	 * the OOM killer while kthreadd is trying to allocate memory for
> +	 * new kernel thread.
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(wait_for_completion_killable(&create->done))) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If I was SIGKILLed before kthreadd (or new kernel thread)
> +		 * calls complete(), leave the cleanup of this structure to
> +		 * that thread.
> +		 */
> +		if (xchg(&create->owner, NULL))
> +			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

I am wondering if this can be simplified...

At least you can move create->done from kthread_create_info to the
stack, and turn create->owner into the pointer to that completion.

Oleg.