tree 8c8a1dca91746f1a77b403b7a08203f4bcb7cbc7
parent a7ad7943b84fae87f5be18f05025c51ae103f732
author Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> 1572866522 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1573896596 +0100

kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads

commit c57c80467f90e5504c8df9ad3555d2c78800bf94 upstream.

Add a function to create a kernel thread associated with a given VM. In
particular, it ensures that the worker thread inherits the priority and
cgroups of the calling thread.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>