一:内核线程简介
Linux 内核线程(KERNEL THREAD)完全独立运行在内核空间,并且不能被切换到用户空间运行,也没有独立内核地址空间。除此之外,与普通的线程一样,可以被调度和抢占。
二:头文件介绍
#include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/thread.h>
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三:实现过程
1). kthread_create 函数用于创建一个内核线程,当时该内核线程并不会马上启动,需要调用wake_up_process启动线程。相关函数详情如下所示。
#define kthread_create(threadfn, data, namefmt, arg...) \ kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, -1, namefmt, ##arg)
/** * kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread. * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current). * @data: data ptr for @threadfn. * @node: memory node number. * @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(). * * If thread is going to be bound on a particular cpu, give its node * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give -1. * 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 no one 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_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), void *data, int node, const char namefmt[], ...)
2). kthread_run 创建内核函数并启动,函数原型如下所示。
/** * 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; \ })
3). kthread_stop 函数功能是结束某个线程(do_exit函数也可以实现相同功能)
/** * kthread_stop - stop a thread created by kthread_create(). * @k: thread created by kthread_create(). * * 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. */ int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
4). schedule_timeout 函数对当前进程进行调度,让其进入睡眠状态,让出占有的系统资源,回到超时唤醒。
/** * schedule_timeout - sleep until timeout * @timeout: timeout value in jiffies * * Make the current task sleep until @timeout jiffies have * elapsed. The routine will return immediately unless * the current task state has been set (see set_current_state()). * * You can set the task state as follows - * * %TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE - at least @timeout jiffies are guaranteed to * pass before the routine returns. The routine will return 0 * * %TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE - the routine may return early if a signal is * delivered to the current task. In this case the remaining time * in jiffies will be returned, or 0 if the timer expired in time * * The current task state is guaranteed to be TASK_RUNNING when this * routine returns. * * Specifying a @timeout value of %MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT will schedule * the CPU away without a bound on the timeout. In this case the return * value will be %MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT. * * In all cases the return value is guaranteed to be non-negative. */ signed long __sched schedule_timeout(signed long timeout)
四:注意事项
(1)在调用kthread_stop函数时,线程函数不能已经运行结束。否则,kthread_stop函数会一直进行等待。
(2)线程函数必须能让出CPU,以便能运行其他线程。同时线程函数也必须能重新被调度运行。在例子程序中,这是通过schedule_timeout()函数完成的。
五:性能测试
可以使用top命令来查看线程(包括内核线程)的CPU利用率。
命令如下:
top –p 线程号可以使用下面命令来查找线程号:
ps aux|grep 线程名可以用下面的命令显示所有内核线程:
ps afx注:线程名由kthread_create函数的第三个参数指定 在分析usb_hub_init()的代码的时候,忽略掉了一部份. 代码片段如下所示:
int usb_hub_init(void) { …… khubd_task = kthread_run(hub_thread, NULL,"khubd"); …… }
Kthread_run() 是kernel中用来启动一个新kernel线程的接口,它所要执行的函数就是后面跟的第一个参数.在这里,也就是hub_thread().另外,顺带提一句,要终止kthread_run()创建的线程,可以调用kthread_stop().