Re: [PATCH] kthread: Export kthread functions

[Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 06:45:20PM -0400, David Kershner wrote:
> The s-Par visornic driver, currently in staging, processes a queue
> being serviced by the an s-Par service partition. We can get a message
> that something has happened with the Service Partition, when that
> happens, we must not access the channel until we get a message that the
> service partition is back again.
> 
> The visornic driver has a thread for processing the channel, when we
> get the message, we need to be able to park the thread and then resume
> it when the problem clears.
> 
> We can do this with kthread_park and unpark but they are not exported
> from the kernel, this patch exports the needed functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>

Given that these functions are visible in the header and part of the
kthread_api, I think it makes good sense to do this

Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

> ---
>  kernel/kthread.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
> index 10e489c..bad80c1 100644
> --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> +++ b/kernel/kthread.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ bool kthread_should_park(void)
>  {
>  	return test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &to_kthread(current)->flags);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_should_park);
>  
>  /**
>   * kthread_freezable_should_stop - should this freezable kthread return now?
> @@ -171,6 +172,7 @@ void kthread_parkme(void)
>  {
>  	__kthread_parkme(to_kthread(current));
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_parkme);
>  
>  static int kthread(void *_create)
>  {
> @@ -411,6 +413,7 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k)
>  	if (kthread)
>  		__kthread_unpark(k, kthread);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_unpark);
>  
>  /**
>   * kthread_park - park a thread created by kthread_create().
> @@ -441,6 +444,7 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
>  	}
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_park);
>  
>  /**
>   * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create().
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>