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diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index bfbfa481be3a..ce4610316377 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/* Kernel thread helper functions.
* Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation, Rusty Russell.
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* Creation is done via kthreadd, so that we get a clean environment
* even if we're invoked from userspace (think modprobe, hotplug cpu,
* etc.).
*/
#include <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/mmu_context.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/sched/task.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
@@ -25,6 +29,7 @@
#include <linux/numa.h>
#include <trace/events/sched.h>
+
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);
static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list);
struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
@@ -1203,6 +1208,57 @@ void kthread_destroy_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_destroy_worker);
+/*
+ * use_mm
+ * Makes the calling kernel thread take on the specified
+ * mm context.
+ * (Note: this routine is intended to be called only
+ * from a kernel thread context)
+ */
+void use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *active_mm;
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+
+ task_lock(tsk);
+ active_mm = tsk->active_mm;
+ if (active_mm != mm) {
+ mmgrab(mm);
+ tsk->active_mm = mm;
+ }
+ tsk->mm = mm;
+ switch_mm(active_mm, mm, tsk);
+ task_unlock(tsk);
+#ifdef finish_arch_post_lock_switch
+ finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
+#endif
+
+ if (active_mm != mm)
+ mmdrop(active_mm);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(use_mm);
+
+/*
+ * unuse_mm
+ * Reverses the effect of use_mm, i.e. releases the
+ * specified mm context which was earlier taken on
+ * by the calling kernel thread
+ * (Note: this routine is intended to be called only
+ * from a kernel thread context)
+ */
+void unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+
+ task_lock(tsk);
+ sync_mm_rss(mm);
+ tsk->mm = NULL;
+ /* active_mm is still 'mm' */
+ enter_lazy_tlb(mm, tsk);
+ task_unlock(tsk);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unuse_mm);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
/**
* kthread_associate_blkcg - associate blkcg to current kthread