[JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit better
[deliverable/linux.git] / fs / jffs2 / background.c
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1/*
2 * JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
3 *
c00c310e 4 * Copyright © 2001-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
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5 *
6 * Created by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
7 *
8 * For licensing information, see the file 'LICENCE' in this directory.
9 *
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10 */
11
12#include <linux/kernel.h>
13#include <linux/jffs2.h>
14#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
15#include <linux/completion.h>
4e57b681 16#include <linux/sched.h>
7dfb7103 17#include <linux/freezer.h>
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18#include "nodelist.h"
19
20
21static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *);
22
23void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
24{
25 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
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26 if (c->gc_task && jffs2_thread_should_wake(c))
27 send_sig(SIGHUP, c->gc_task, 1);
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28 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
29}
30
31/* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */
32int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
33{
34 pid_t pid;
35 int ret = 0;
36
4b4d1cc7 37 BUG_ON(c->gc_task);
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fff7afd7 39 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
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40 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
41
42 pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES);
43 if (pid < 0) {
44 printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid);
45 complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
46 ret = pid;
47 } else {
48 /* Wait for it... */
49 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid));
fff7afd7 50 wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
1da177e4 51 }
182ec4ee 52
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53 return ret;
54}
55
56void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
57{
e2d48b1a 58 int wait = 0;
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59 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
60 if (c->gc_task) {
61 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2: Killing GC task %d\n", c->gc_task->pid));
62 send_sig(SIGKILL, c->gc_task, 1);
e2d48b1a 63 wait = 1;
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64 }
65 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
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66 if (wait)
67 wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
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68}
69
70static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
71{
72 struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
73
74 daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
75 allow_signal(SIGKILL);
76 allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
77 allow_signal(SIGCONT);
78
79 c->gc_task = current;
fff7afd7 80 complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
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81
82 set_user_nice(current, 10);
83
83144186 84 set_freezable();
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85 for (;;) {
86 allow_signal(SIGHUP);
e716dd36 87 again:
b27cf88e 88 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
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89 if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
90 set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
b27cf88e 91 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
1da177e4 92 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread sleeping...\n"));
1da177e4 93 schedule();
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94 } else
95 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
96
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98 /* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
99 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
100 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
101 * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing. Yield()
102 * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
103 * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
104 * disk).
105 * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down. Pulling an
106 * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
107 * the GC thread get there first. */
108 schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
1da177e4 109
182ec4ee 110 /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
1da177e4 111 */
e136e769 112 while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
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113 siginfo_t info;
114 unsigned long signr;
115
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116 if (try_to_freeze())
117 goto again;
118
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119 signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
120
121 switch(signr) {
122 case SIGSTOP:
123 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGSTOP received.\n"));
124 set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
125 schedule();
126 break;
127
128 case SIGKILL:
129 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGKILL received.\n"));
130 goto die;
131
132 case SIGHUP:
133 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGHUP received.\n"));
134 break;
135 default:
136 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): signal %ld received\n", signr));
137 }
138 }
139 /* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
140 disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
141
142 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): pass\n"));
143 if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
144 printk(KERN_NOTICE "No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
145 goto die;
146 }
147 }
148 die:
149 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
150 c->gc_task = NULL;
151 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
152 complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
153}
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