kthread_create9
Create a kthread.
Usage
struct task_struct * kthread_create(int (*threadfn) (void *data), void * data, const char namefmt[], ...);
Arguments
threadfn
the function to run until signal_pending(current).
data
data ptr for threadfn.
namefmt[]
printf-style name for the thread.
...
variable arguments
Overview
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).
Releases
3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.