From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:27:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: kthreads: simplify the startup synchronization
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~204
X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdd140bdd6c7bc6395f08877a73c39941501af93;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6

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 @@ struct kthread_create_info
 	/* 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 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 	/* 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 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
 
 	/* 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 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
 
 	create.threadfn = threadfn;
 	create.data = data;
-	init_completion(&create.started);
 	init_completion(&create.done);
 
 	spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);