Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.
[linux-2.6] / include / linux / kthread.h
1 #ifndef _LINUX_KTHREAD_H
2 #define _LINUX_KTHREAD_H
3 /* Simple interface for creating and stopping kernel threads without mess. */
4 #include <linux/err.h>
5 #include <linux/sched.h>
6
7 struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
8                                    void *data,
9                                    const char namefmt[], ...)
10         __attribute__((format(printf, 3, 4)));
11
12 /**
13  * kthread_run - create and wake a thread.
14  * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
15  * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
16  * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread.
17  *
18  * Description: Convenient wrapper for kthread_create() followed by
19  * wake_up_process().  Returns the kthread or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
20  */
21 #define kthread_run(threadfn, data, namefmt, ...)                          \
22 ({                                                                         \
23         struct task_struct *__k                                            \
24                 = kthread_create(threadfn, data, namefmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); \
25         if (!IS_ERR(__k))                                                  \
26                 wake_up_process(__k);                                      \
27         __k;                                                               \
28 })
29
30 void kthread_bind(struct task_struct *k, unsigned int cpu);
31 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k);
32 int kthread_should_stop(void);
33
34 int kthreadd(void *unused);
35 extern struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
36
37 #endif /* _LINUX_KTHREAD_H */