KTHREAD_STOP

Section: Driver Basics (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create.  

SYNOPSIS

int kthread_stop(struct task_struct * k);
 

ARGUMENTS

k

thread created by kthread_create.
 

DESCRIPTION

Sets kthread_should_stop for k to return true, wakes it, and waits for it to exit. This can also be called after kthread_create instead of calling wake_up_process: the thread will exit without calling threadfn.

If threadfn may call do_exit itself, the caller must ensure task_struct can't go away.

Returns the result of threadfn, or -EINTR if wake_up_process was never called.  

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