linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] kthreads: simplify the startup synchronization

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Message-ID: <20090130123354.GA26213@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:33:54 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@...nvz.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] 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@...hat.com>

--- 6.29-rc3/kernel/kthread.c~2_COMPLETION	2009-01-30 09:46:29.000000000 +0100
+++ 6.29-rc3/kernel/kthread.c	2009-01-30 10:45:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ 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;
@@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ 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())
@@ -99,10 +98,8 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthrea
 	pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
 	if (pid < 0) {
 		create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
-	} else {
-		wait_for_completion(&create->started);
+		complete(&create->done);
 	}
-	complete(&create->done);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -133,7 +130,6 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (
 
 	create.threadfn = threadfn;
 	create.data = data;
-	init_completion(&create.started);
 	init_completion(&create.done);
 
 	spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock);

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