This adds a new flag, PF_USER_WORKER, that's used for behavior common to
to both PF_IO_WORKER and users like vhost which will use a new helper
instead of create_io_thread because they require different behavior for
operations like signal handling.
The common behavior PF_USER_WORKER covers is the vm reclaim handling.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
#define PF_MEMALLOC 0x00000800 /* Allocating memory */
#define PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED 0x00001000 /* set_user() noticed that RLIMIT_NPROC was exceeded */
#define PF_USED_MATH 0x00002000 /* If unset the fpu must be initialized before use */
-#define PF__HOLE__00004000 0x00004000
+#define PF_USER_WORKER 0x00004000 /* Kernel thread cloned from userspace thread */
#define PF_NOFREEZE 0x00008000 /* This thread should not be frozen */
#define PF__HOLE__00010000 0x00010000
#define PF_KSWAPD 0x00020000 /* I am kswapd */
int exit_signal;
u32 kthread:1;
u32 io_thread:1;
+ u32 user_worker:1;
unsigned long stack;
unsigned long stack_size;
unsigned long tls;
p->flags &= ~PF_KTHREAD;
if (args->kthread)
p->flags |= PF_KTHREAD;
+ if (args->user_worker)
+ p->flags |= PF_USER_WORKER;
if (args->io_thread) {
/*
* Mark us an IO worker, and block any signal that isn't
.fn = fn,
.fn_arg = arg,
.io_thread = 1,
+ .user_worker = 1,
};
return copy_process(NULL, 0, node, &args);
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
/*
- * Do not throttle IO workers, kthreads other than kswapd or
+ * Do not throttle user workers, kthreads other than kswapd or
* workqueues. They may be required for reclaim to make
* forward progress (e.g. journalling workqueues or kthreads).
*/
if (!current_is_kswapd() &&
- current->flags & (PF_IO_WORKER|PF_KTHREAD)) {
+ current->flags & (PF_USER_WORKER|PF_KTHREAD)) {
cond_resched();
return;
}