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[PATCH v6 1/6] vhost: Add a new parameter in vhost_dev to allow user select kthread

From: Cindy Lu <hidden>
Date: 2025-02-23 15:41:01
Also in: lkml, virtualization
Subsystem: the rest, virtio host (vhost) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, "Michael S. Tsirkin", Jason Wang

The vhost now uses vhost_task and workers as a child of the owner thread.
While this aligns with containerization principles,it confuses some legacy
userspace app, Therefore, we are reintroducing kthread API support.

Introduce a new parameter to enable users to choose between
kthread and task mode.

Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <redacted>
---
 drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 1 +
 drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 9ac25d08f473..eaddbd39c29b 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ void vhost_dev_init(struct vhost_dev *dev,
 	dev->byte_weight = byte_weight;
 	dev->use_worker = use_worker;
 	dev->msg_handler = msg_handler;
+	dev->inherit_owner = true;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&dev->wait);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->read_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->pending_list);
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index bb75a292d50c..c650c4506c70 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct vhost_dev {
 	int byte_weight;
 	struct xarray worker_xa;
 	bool use_worker;
+	bool inherit_owner;
 	int (*msg_handler)(struct vhost_dev *dev, u32 asid,
 			   struct vhost_iotlb_msg *msg);
 };
-- 
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