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THREAD_EXIT(9) Kernel Developer's Manual THREAD_EXIT(9)

NAME

thread_exit —
abandon current thread context

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/proc.h>

void
thread_exit(void);

DESCRIPTION

The thread_exit() function implements the machine independent prelude to a thread shutdown. It will not return, and will result in a call to mi_switch(9) to schedule some other thread.

thread_exit() arranges to free all the resources of the thread, specifically the kernel stack.

To protect the runqueue(9), thread_exit() must be called with the sched_lock mutex held.

SEE ALSO

mi_switch(9), mutex(9), runqueue(9), sleep(9)
July 5, 2002 Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64