[RFC v4 PATCH 02/49] multi-process: util: Add qemu_thread_cancel() to cancel running thread

[Jagannathan Raman]

qemu_thread_cancel() added to destroy a given running thread.
This will be needed in the following patches.

Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>
---
 include/qemu/thread.h    |  1 +
 util/qemu-thread-posix.c | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qemu/thread.h b/include/qemu/thread.h
index 047db03..fe7fa5a 100644
--- a/include/qemu/thread.h
+++ b/include/qemu/thread.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char 
*name,
                         void *(*start_routine)(void *),
                         void *arg, int mode);
 void *qemu_thread_join(QemuThread *thread);
+void qemu_thread_cancel(QemuThread *thread);
 void qemu_thread_get_self(QemuThread *thread);
 bool qemu_thread_is_self(QemuThread *thread);
 void qemu_thread_exit(void *retval);
diff --git a/util/qemu-thread-posix.c b/util/qemu-thread-posix.c
index 838980a..2fd85ed 100644
--- a/util/qemu-thread-posix.c
+++ b/util/qemu-thread-posix.c
@@ -590,3 +590,13 @@ void *qemu_thread_join(QemuThread *thread)
     }
     return ret;
 }
+
+void qemu_thread_cancel(QemuThread *thread)
+{
+    int err;
+
+    err = pthread_cancel(thread->thread);
+    if (err) {
+        error_exit(err, __func__);
+    }
+}
-- 
1.8.3.1