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Reparent the calling kernel thread to kthreadd
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re111.html"><span>sys_tgkill</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
send signal to one specific thread
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re112.html"><span>kthread_run</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
create and wake a thread.
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re113.html"><span>kthread_should_stop</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
should this kthread return now?
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re114.html"><span>kthread_create</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
create a kthread.
</span></dt><dt><span class="refentrytitle"><a href="re115.html"><span>kthread_stop</span></a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
stop a thread created by <code class="function">kthread_create</code>.
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