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2009-02-14[JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit betterAndres Salomon
I've noticed some pretty poor behavior on OLPC machines after bootup, when gdm/X are starting. The GCD monopolizes the scheduler (which in turns means it gets to do more nand i/o), which results in processes taking much much longer than they should to start. As an example, on an OLPC machine going from OFW to a usable X (via auto-login gdm) takes 2m 30s. The majority of this time is consumed by the switch into graphical mode. With this patch, we cut a full 60s off of bootup time. After bootup, things are much snappier as well. Note that we have seen a CRC node error with this patch that causes the machine to fail to boot, but we've also seen that problem without this patch. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-10-31[JFFS2] Fix lack of locking in thread_should_wake()David Woodhouse
The thread_should_wake() function trawls through the list of 'very dirty' eraseblocks, determining whether the background GC thread should wake. Doing this without holding the appropriate locks is a bad idea. OLPC Trac #8615 Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2007-12-04Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Fix breakage caused by commit d5d8c5976d6adeddb8208c240460411e2198b393 "freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads" in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() that assumed it would be sent signals by the freezer. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Pete MacKay <armlinux@architechnical.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-23Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-10[JFFS2] Whitespace cleanups.David Woodhouse
Convert many spaces to tabs; one or two other minor cosmetic fixes. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-06-28[JFFS2] Fix suspend failure with JFFS2 GC thread.David Woodhouse
The try_to_freeze() call was in the wrong place; we need it in the signal-pending loop now that a pending freeze also makes signal_pending() return true. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-04-25[JFFS2] Tidy up licensing/copyright boilerplate.David Woodhouse
In particular, remove the bit in the LICENCE file about contacting Red Hat for alternative arrangements. Their errant IS department broke that arrangement a long time ago -- the policy of collecting copyright assignments from contributors came to an end when the plug was pulled on the servers hosting the project, without notice or reason. We do still dual-license it for use with eCos, with the GPL+exception licence approved by the FSF as being GPL-compatible. It's just that nobody has the right to license it differently. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-03-08[JFFS2] Use yield() between GC passes in background thread.David Woodhouse
The garbage collection thread is strictly an optimisation. Everything it does would also be done just-in-time in the context of something in userspace trying to access the file system. Sometimes, however, it's a pessimisation. Especially during early boot when it's checksumming nodes and scanning inodes which are shortly going to be pulled in by read_inode anyway. We end up building the rbtree of node coverage twice for the same inode. By switching to yield() instead of cond_resched() in the main loop, we observe boot times on the OLPC system going down from about 100 seconds to 60. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.hNigel Cunningham
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-01BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/jffs2/Eric Sesterhenn
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-11-07[JFFS2] Clean up trailing white spacesThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-10-30[PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-26Merge with rsync://fileserver/linuxThomas Gleixner
Update to Linus latest
2005-06-26[PATCH] jffs2 build fixAndrew Morton
Missed conversion in the swsusp cleanup. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-23[JFFS2] Fix cleanup in case of GC-Task not startedThomas Gleixner
Do not call wait_for_completion, when the gc task is not there. Prevent an oops when the gc thread was not started. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-05-23[JFFS2] Convert thread start semaphore to completionThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!