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authorGerard Lledo <gerard.lledo@gmail.com>2009-06-17 16:08:55 -0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2009-09-04 04:53:35 -0400
commit91e0955b57377578f7555b5d0f2a21040691004b (patch)
treef7f2e11890e12027882ef1fba1b56cb62457bff4 /fs
parent2c78c44362bc9b7c715a3c2119b89a407c1cb739 (diff)
jffs2: move jffs2_gcd_mtd threads to the new kthread API
Move the jffs2 garbage collecting thread to the new kthread API. Signed-off-by: Gerard Lledo <gerard.lledo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/background.c20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index e9580104b6ba..3ff50da94789 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
15#include <linux/completion.h> 15#include <linux/completion.h>
16#include <linux/sched.h> 16#include <linux/sched.h>
17#include <linux/freezer.h> 17#include <linux/freezer.h>
18#include <linux/kthread.h>
18#include "nodelist.h" 19#include "nodelist.h"
19 20
20 21
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
31/* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */ 32/* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */
32int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) 33int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
33{ 34{
34 pid_t pid; 35 struct task_struct *tsk;
35 int ret = 0; 36 int ret = 0;
36 37
37 BUG_ON(c->gc_task); 38 BUG_ON(c->gc_task);
@@ -39,15 +40,16 @@ int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
39 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start); 40 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
40 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit); 41 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
41 42
42 pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES); 43 tsk = kthread_run(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, "jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
43 if (pid < 0) { 44 if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
44 printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid); 45 printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %ld\n", -PTR_ERR(tsk));
45 complete(&c->gc_thread_exit); 46 complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
46 ret = pid; 47 ret = PTR_ERR(tsk);
47 } else { 48 } else {
48 /* Wait for it... */ 49 /* Wait for it... */
49 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid)); 50 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", tsk->pid));
50 wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start); 51 wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
52 ret = tsk->pid;
51 } 53 }
52 54
53 return ret; 55 return ret;
@@ -71,7 +73,6 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
71{ 73{
72 struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c; 74 struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
73 75
74 daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
75 allow_signal(SIGKILL); 76 allow_signal(SIGKILL);
76 allow_signal(SIGSTOP); 77 allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
77 allow_signal(SIGCONT); 78 allow_signal(SIGCONT);
@@ -107,6 +108,11 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
107 * the GC thread get there first. */ 108 * the GC thread get there first. */
108 schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50)); 109 schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
109 110
111 if (kthread_should_stop()) {
112 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): kthread_stop() called.\n"));
113 goto die;
114 }
115
110 /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem. 116 /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
111 */ 117 */
112 while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) { 118 while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {