[PATCH v5 1/6] vhost: Add a new parameter in vhost_dev to allow user select kthread

[Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>]

The vhost now uses vhost_task and workers as a child of the owner
thread. While this aligns with containerization principles, it confuses
some legacy userspace applications. Therefore, we are reintroducing
support for the kthread API.

Introduce a new parameter to enable users to choose between kthread and
task mode.

Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 1 +
 drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 9ac25d08f473..eaddbd39c29b 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ void vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
 	dev->byte_weight = byte_weight;
 	dev->use_worker = use_worker;
 	dev->msg_handler = msg_handler;
+	dev->inherit_owner = true;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev->wait);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->read_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->pending_list);
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index bb75a292d50c..c650c4506c70 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct vhost_dev {
 	int byte_weight;
 	struct xarray worker_xa;
 	bool use_worker;
+	bool inherit_owner;
 	int (*msg_handler)(struct vhost_dev *dev, u32 asid,
 			   struct vhost_iotlb_msg *msg);
 };
-- 
2.45.0