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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-05 01:42:42 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-05 02:54:41 +0300
commite9f069868d60550c4b46f084ac9276a57c1b4711 (patch)
treef2b2146fdd2aebab3130c66815fddbd71ce3249a
parent04697858d89e4bf2650364f8d6956e2554e8ef88 (diff)
downloadlinux-e9f069868d60550c4b46f084ac9276a57c1b4711.tar.xz
kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation
- Make it clear that the `node' arg refers to memory allocations only: kthread_create_on_node() does not pin the new thread to that node's CPUs. - Encourage the use of NUMA_NO_NODE. [nzimmer@sgi.com: use NUMA_NO_NODE in kthread_create() also] Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kthread.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c7
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 869b21dcf503..e691b6a23f72 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
const char namefmt[], ...);
#define kthread_create(threadfn, data, namefmt, arg...) \
- kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, -1, namefmt, ##arg)
+ kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, NUMA_NO_NODE, namefmt, ##arg)
struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 490924cc9e7c..9ff173dca1ae 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -248,15 +248,16 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
* kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread.
* @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
* @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
- * @node: memory node number.
+ * @node: task and thread structures for the thread are allocated on this node
* @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
*
* Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel
* thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start
- * it. See also kthread_run().
+ * it. See also kthread_run(). The new thread has SCHED_NORMAL policy and
+ * is affine to all CPUs.
*
* If thread is going to be bound on a particular cpu, give its node
- * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give -1.
+ * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give NUMA_NO_NODE.
* When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its
* argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a
* standalone thread for which no one will call kthread_stop(), or