+
+/**
+ * kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread.
+ * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current).
+ * @data: data ptr for @threadfn.
+ * @node: task and thread structures for the thread are allocated on this node
+ * @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(). The new thread has SCHED_NORMAL policy and
+ * is affine to all CPUs.
+ *
+ * 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 NUMA_NO_NODE.
+ * 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) or ERR_PTR(-EINTR).
+ */
+struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
+ void *data, int node,
+ const char namefmt[],
+ ...)
+{
+ struct task_struct *task;
+ va_list args;
+
+ va_start(args, namefmt);
+ task = __kthread_create_on_node(threadfn, data, node, namefmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+
+ return task;
+}