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Rafael J. Wysocki
8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
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>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Jean Delvare
b3561ea946 Clean up mutex_trylock noise
Ingo Molnar's semaphore to mutex conversions left some noise on a few
trylock calls. Clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
3e67fe4543 [MTD] Finish conversion mtd_blkdevs to use the kthread API
Remove waitqueue, 'exiting' flag and completion; use kthread APIs instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-04-22 20:48:29 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman
99f9b2431e [MTD] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread API
thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking
around blocking signals directly.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-04-19 16:16:46 -05:00
Burman Yan
95b93a0cd4 [MTD] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <yan_952@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-11-28 23:47:21 +00:00
Richard Purdie
1918767299 [MTD] Allow variable block sizes in mtd_blkdevs
Currently, mtd_blkdevs enforces a block size of 512, even if the drivers
can seemingly request a different size. This patch fixes mtd_blkdevs so
block sizes other than 512 work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-11-28 22:27:47 +00:00
Jeff Garzik
9a29230825 [MTD] fix printk warning
gcc spits out this warning:

drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c: In function ‘do_blktrans_request’:
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c:72: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 2 has type ‘unsigned int’

This could be fixed any number of ways, including use of BUG().
rq_data_dir() only returns 0 or 1, so this entire case is superfluous.
I did the most simple fix.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-10-01 17:57:26 +01:00
Jens Axboe
4aff5e2333 [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
48b192686d [PATCH] sem2mutex: drivers/mtd/
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:48 -08:00
Eric Sesterhenn
373ebfbf17 BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/mtd/
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>
2006-03-26 18:15:12 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
a885c8c431 [PATCH] Add block_device_operations.getgeo block device method
HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to
duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting
the start sector.  This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a
->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure.  For many
drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now.

[1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect.  xpram sets ->start
    to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts
    the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard
    sector size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:54 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
97894cda57 [MTD] core: Clean up trailing white spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-07 13:37:38 +01:00
Todd Poynor
65a8de36b4 [MTD] mtd_blkdevs.c: Fix names when many devices/partitions are created
mtdblock (and other mtd modules that use the mtd_blkdevs interface
between the mtd translation layers and the linux block layer) handles
incorrectly more than 10 devices or 26 partitions in the names passed to
the generic disk layer.  This causes the device file names and other
info kept by the generic disk/block layers to have names such as
"mtdblock<".  Use integer formatting for device numbers; use "aa-az"
for partitions 27-52, "ba-bz" for 53-78...

Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-08-04 12:51:18 +02:00
Todd Poynor
7ad2b7f595 [MTD] mtd_blkdevs.c: Remove DEVFS leftovers
Remove mtd_blkdevs refs to the no longer functional DEVFS filesystem.

Verified mtdblock continues to work fine via udev with these calls
removed.

Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-08-04 12:50:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00