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Andres Salomon
efab0b5d3e [JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit better
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>
2009-02-14 08:59:04 +00:00
David Woodhouse
b27cf88e95 [JFFS2] Fix lack of locking in thread_should_wake()
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
2008-10-31 14:52:24 +00:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
e136e769d4 Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)
Fix breakage caused by commit d5d8c5976d
"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>
2007-12-04 01:35:41 -05:00
David Woodhouse
39fe5434cb Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2007-07-23 10:20:10 +01:00
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
David Woodhouse
ef53cb02ff [JFFS2] Whitespace cleanups.
Convert many spaces to tabs; one or two other minor cosmetic fixes.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-07-10 10:01:22 +01:00
David Woodhouse
e716dd3644 [JFFS2] Fix suspend failure with JFFS2 GC thread.
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>
2007-06-28 19:49:36 +01:00
David Woodhouse
c00c310eac [JFFS2] Tidy up licensing/copyright boilerplate.
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>
2007-04-25 14:16:47 +01:00
David Woodhouse
f8a922c7bb [JFFS2] Use yield() between GC passes in background thread.
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>
2007-03-08 10:28:30 +00:00
Nigel Cunningham
7dfb71030f [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h
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>
2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
Eric Sesterhenn
4b4d1cc733 BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/jffs2/
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>
2006-04-01 01:15:35 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
182ec4eee3 [JFFS2] Clean up trailing white spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-07 14:18:56 +01:00
Tim Schmielau
4e57b68178 [PATCH] fix missing includes
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>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
7ca6448dbf Merge with rsync://fileserver/linux
Update to Linus latest
2005-06-26 23:20:36 +02:00
Andrew Morton
34f18a9887 [PATCH] jffs2 build fix
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>
2005-06-26 08:43:19 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
e2d48b1a98 [JFFS2] Fix cleanup in case of GC-Task not started
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 13:48:38 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
fff7afd791 [JFFS2] Convert thread start semaphore to completion
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-05-23 13:21:14 +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