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| author | Gerard Lledo <gerard.lledo@gmail.com> | 2009-06-17 13:08:55 -0700 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2009-09-04 09:53:35 +0100 |
| commit | 91e0955b57377578f7555b5d0f2a21040691004b (patch) | |
| tree | f7f2e11890e12027882ef1fba1b56cb62457bff4 /fs/jffs2 | |
| parent | 2c78c44362bc9b7c715a3c2119b89a407c1cb739 (diff) | |
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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/jffs2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/background.c | 20 |
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 @@ #include <linux/completion.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/freezer.h> +#include <linux/kthread.h> #include "nodelist.h" @@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) /* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */ int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) { - pid_t pid; + struct task_struct *tsk; int ret = 0; BUG_ON(c->gc_task); @@ -39,15 +40,16 @@ int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start); init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit); - pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES); - if (pid < 0) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid); + tsk = kthread_run(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, "jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index); + if (IS_ERR(tsk)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %ld\n", -PTR_ERR(tsk)); complete(&c->gc_thread_exit); - ret = pid; + ret = PTR_ERR(tsk); } else { /* Wait for it... */ - D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid)); + D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", tsk->pid)); wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start); + ret = tsk->pid; } return ret; @@ -71,7 +73,6 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c) { struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c; - daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index); allow_signal(SIGKILL); allow_signal(SIGSTOP); allow_signal(SIGCONT); @@ -107,6 +108,11 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c) * the GC thread get there first. */ schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50)); + if (kthread_should_stop()) { + D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): kthread_stop() called.\n")); + goto die; + } + /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem. */ while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) { |