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authorJunaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>2019-11-01 00:14:08 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-11-12 19:21:46 +0100
commit6082f2e28887bcef66d9b3b5710fd3491a722f0b (patch)
tree99445f96e6ca6ea3b637c82da25dab17fbab975a /include
parent5219505fcbb640e273a0d51c19c38de0100ec5a9 (diff)
kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads
commit c57c80467f90e5504c8df9ad3555d2c78800bf94 upstream. Add a function to create a kernel thread associated with a given VM. In particular, it ensures that the worker thread inherits the priority and cgroups of the calling thread. Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/kvm_host.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 553a3115a735..96207939d862 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -1305,4 +1305,10 @@ static inline int kvm_arch_vcpu_run_pid_change(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_VCPU_RUN_PID_CHANGE */
+typedef int (*kvm_vm_thread_fn_t)(struct kvm *kvm, uintptr_t data);
+
+int kvm_vm_create_worker_thread(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn,
+ uintptr_t data, const char *name,
+ struct task_struct **thread_ptr);
+
#endif