进程管理API之kernel_thread

pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags) 用于创建一个kernel thread，这个thread的回调函数是fn，返回值是
新创建thread的pid
其使用的例子如下：
static noinline void __ref rest_init(void)
{
	int pid;

	rcu_scheduler_starting();
	/*
	 * We need to spawn init first so that it obtains pid 1, however
	 * the init task will end up wanting to create kthreads, which, if
	 * we schedule it before we create kthreadd, will OOPS.
	 */
	kernel_thread(kernel_init, NULL, CLONE_FS);
}
本例中调用kernel_thread 来创建一个thread，其回调函数是kernel_init，arg是null。flags是CLONE_FS 表示和父进程share fs
其源码分析如下：
pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags)
{
	return _do_fork(flags|CLONE_VM|CLONE_UNTRACED, (unsigned long)fn,
		(unsigned long)arg, NULL, NULL, 0);
}
可见最终是调用大名鼎鼎的_do_fork来创建新的thread