转自:http://blog.csdn.net/zhangxuechao_/article/details/50876397
头文件 include/linux/kthread.h 创建并启动 /** * kthread_run - create and wake a thread. * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current). * @data: data ptr for @threadfn. * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread. * * Description: Convenient wrapper for kthread_create() followed by * wake_up_process(). Returns the kthread or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). */ #define kthread_run(threadfn, data, namefmt, ...) ({ struct task_struct *__k = kthread_create(threadfn, data, namefmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); if (!IS_ERR(__k)) wake_up_process(__k); __k; }) 创建 /** * kthread_create - create a kthread. * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current). * @data: data ptr for @threadfn. * @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(), kthread_create_on_cpu(). * * 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 noone will call kthread_stop(), or * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means * kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop(). * * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). */ struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data), void *data, const char namefmt[], ...) { struct kthread_create_info create; DECLARE_WORK(work, keventd_create_kthread, &create); create.threadfn = threadfn; create.data = data; init_completion(&create.started); init_completion(&create.done); /* * The workqueue needs to start up first: */ if (!helper_wq) work.func(work.data); else { queue_work(helper_wq, &work); wait_for_completion(&create.done); } if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) { va_list args; va_start(args, namefmt); vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm), namefmt, args); va_end(args); } return create.result; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create); 结束 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k); 1 检测 int kthread_should_stop(void); 1 返回should_stop标志。它用于创建的线程检查结束标志,并决定是否退出 举例 static int hello_init(void) { printk(KERN_INFO "Hello, world! "); tsk = kthread_run(thread_function, NULL, "mythread%d", 1); if (IS_ERR(tsk)) { printk(KERN_INFO "create kthread failed! "); } else { printk(KERN_INFO "create ktrhead ok! "); } return 0; } static void hello_exit(void) { printk(KERN_INFO "Hello, exit! "); if (!IS_ERR(tsk)){ int ret = kthread_stop(tsk); printk(KERN_INFO "thread function has run %ds ", ret); } } module_init(hello_init); module_exit(hello_exit);