2 * JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
4 * Copyright © 2001-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
6 * Created by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
8 * For licensing information, see the file 'LICENCE' in this directory.
12 #include <linux/kernel.h>
13 #include <linux/jffs2.h>
14 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
15 #include <linux/completion.h>
16 #include <linux/sched.h>
17 #include <linux/freezer.h>
21 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *);
23 void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
25 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
26 if (c->gc_task && jffs2_thread_should_wake(c))
27 send_sig(SIGHUP, c->gc_task, 1);
28 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
31 /* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */
32 int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
39 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
40 init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
42 pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES);
44 printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid);
45 complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
49 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid));
50 wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
56 void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
59 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
61 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2: Killing GC task %d\n", c->gc_task->pid));
62 send_sig(SIGKILL, c->gc_task, 1);
65 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
67 wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
70 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
72 struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
74 daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
75 allow_signal(SIGKILL);
76 allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
77 allow_signal(SIGCONT);
80 complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
82 set_user_nice(current, 10);
88 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
89 if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
90 set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
91 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
92 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread sleeping...\n"));
95 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
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 -
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));
110 /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
112 while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
119 signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, ¤t->blocked, &info);
123 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGSTOP received.\n"));
124 set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
129 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGKILL received.\n"));
133 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGHUP received.\n"));
136 D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): signal %ld received\n", signr));
139 /* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
140 disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
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");
149 spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
151 spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
152 complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);