/* uisthread.c * * Copyright (C) 2010 - 2013 UNISYS CORPORATION * All rights reserved. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at * your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or * NON INFRINGEMENT. See the GNU General Public License for more * details. */ /* @ALL_INSPECTED */ #include #include #include #include #include "uisutils.h" #include "uisthread.h" /* this is shorter than using __FILE__ (full path name) in * debug/info/error messages */ #define CURRENT_FILE_PC UISLIB_PC_uisthread_c #define __MYFILE__ "uisthread.c" /*****************************************************/ /* Exported functions */ /*****************************************************/ /* returns 0 for failure, 1 for success */ int uisthread_start(struct uisthread_info *thrinfo, int (*threadfn)(void *), void *thrcontext, char *name) { /* used to stop the thread */ init_completion(&thrinfo->has_stopped); thrinfo->task = kthread_run(threadfn, thrcontext, name); if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) { thrinfo->id = 0; return 0; /* failure */ } thrinfo->id = thrinfo->task->pid; return 1; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uisthread_start); void uisthread_stop(struct uisthread_info *thrinfo) { int stopped = 0; if (thrinfo->id == 0) return; /* thread not running */ kthread_stop(thrinfo->task); /* give up if the thread has NOT died in 1 minute */ if (wait_for_completion_timeout(&thrinfo->has_stopped, 60 * HZ)) stopped = 1; if (stopped) thrinfo->id = 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uisthread_stop);