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kernel: Allow a kernel thread's name to be set in copy_process

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This patch allows kernel users to pass in the thread name so it can be
set during creation instead of having to use set_task_comm after the
thread is created.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Mike Christie
2023-03-10 16:03:23 -06:00
committed by Christian Brauner (Microsoft)
parent e0a98139c1
commit cf587db2ee
4 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create)
current->pref_node_fork = create->node;
#endif
/* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */
pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, NULL,
CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD);
if (pid < 0) {
/* Release the structure when caller killed by a fatal signal. */
struct completion *done = xchg(&create->done, NULL);