exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit

Update complete_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality. All of the
us

exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit

Update complete_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality. All of the
users of complete_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit so
this change makes it clear what is happening.

Move the implementation of kthread_complete_and_exit from
kernel/exit.c to to kernel/kthread.c. As this function is kthread
specific it makes most sense to live with the kthread functions.

There are no functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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signal: Remove the siginfo paramater from kernel_dqueue_signal

None of the callers use the it so remove it.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebi

signal: Remove the siginfo paramater from kernel_dqueue_signal

None of the callers use the it so remove it.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up f

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does allow_signal(SIGCONT) for no reason,
SIGCONT will wake a stopped task up even if it is ignore

signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does allow_signal(SIGCONT) for no reason,
SIGCONT will wake a stopped task up even if it is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() can race with SIGCONT and sleep in
TASK_STOPPED state after it was already sent. Add the n

signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() can race with SIGCONT and sleep in
TASK_STOPPED state after it was already sent. Add the new helper,
kernel_signal_stop(), which does this correctly.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()

1. Rename dequeue_signal_lock() to kernel_dequeue_signal(). This
matches another "for kthreads only" kernel_sigaction() helper.

2.

signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()

1. Rename dequeue_signal_lock() to kernel_dequeue_signal(). This
matches another "for kthreads only" kernel_sigaction() helper.

2. Remove the "tsk" and "mask" arguments, they are always current
and current->blocked. And it is simply wrong if tsk != current.

3. We could also remove the 3rd "siginfo_t *info" arg but it looks
potentially useful. However we can simplify the callers if we
change kernel_dequeue_signal() to accept info => NULL.

4. Remove _irqsave, it is never called from atomic context.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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signals: jffs2: fix the wrong usage of disallow_signal()

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does disallow_signal(SIGHUP) around
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() and the comment says "We don't want SIGHUP
to

signals: jffs2: fix the wrong usage of disallow_signal()

jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() does disallow_signal(SIGHUP) around
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() and the comment says "We don't want SIGHUP
to interrupt us".

But disallow_signal() can't ensure that jffs2_garbage_collect_pass()
won't be interrupted by SIGHUP, the problem is that SIGHUP can be
already pending when disallow_signal() is called, and in this case any
interruptible sleep won't block.

Note: this is in fact because disallow_signal() is buggy and should be
fixed, see the next changes.

But there is another reason why disallow_signal() is wrong: SIG_IGN set
by disallow_signal() silently discards any SIGHUP which can be sent
before the next allow_signal(SIGHUP).

Change this code to use sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK/SIG_BLOCK, SIGHUP).
This even matches the old (and wrong) semantics allow/disallow had when
this logic was written.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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jffs2: Use pr_fmt and remove jffs: from formats

Use pr_fmt to prefix KBUILD_MODNAME to appropriate logging messages.

Remove now unnecessary internal prefixes from formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perch

jffs2: Use pr_fmt and remove jffs: from formats

Use pr_fmt to prefix KBUILD_MODNAME to appropriate logging messages.

Remove now unnecessary internal prefixes from formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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jffs2: Convert printks to pr_<level>

Use the more current logging style.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Convert uses of embedded function names to %s, __func__.

A couple of long line checkpatc

jffs2: Convert printks to pr_<level>

Use the more current logging style.

Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Convert uses of embedded function names to %s, __func__.

A couple of long line checkpatch errors I don't care about exist.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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jffs2: Convert most D1/D2 macros to jffs2_dbg

D1 and D2 macros are mostly uses to emit debugging messages.

Convert the logging uses of D1 & D2 to jffs2_dbg(level, fmt, ...)
to be a bit more consist

jffs2: Convert most D1/D2 macros to jffs2_dbg

D1 and D2 macros are mostly uses to emit debugging messages.

Convert the logging uses of D1 & D2 to jffs2_dbg(level, fmt, ...)
to be a bit more consistent style with the rest of the kernel.

All jffs2_dbg output is now at KERN_DEBUG where some of
the previous uses were emitted at various KERN_<LEVEL>s.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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jffs2: Update copyright notices

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

jffs2: Require jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger() to be called with lock held

We're about to call this from a bunch of places which already hold
c->erase_completion_lock, so add an assertion and change

jffs2: Require jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger() to be called with lock held

We're about to call this from a bunch of places which already hold
c->erase_completion_lock, so add an assertion and change its existing
callers to do the same.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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jffs2: move jffs2_gcd_mtd threads to the new kthread API

Move the jffs2 garbage collecting thread to the new kthread API.

Signed-off-by: Gerard Lledo <gerard.lledo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew

jffs2: move jffs2_gcd_mtd threads to the new kthread API

Move the jffs2 garbage collecting thread to the new kthread API.

Signed-off-by: Gerard Lledo <gerard.lledo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

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[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 t

[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>

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[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. D

[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

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Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)

Fix breakage caused by commit d5d8c5976d6adeddb8208c240460411e2198b393
"freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads" in
jffs2_garbage_

Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)

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>

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[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

[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>

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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. Thi

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>

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[JFFS2] Whitespace cleanups.

Convert many spaces to tabs; one or two other minor cosmetic fixes.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

[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

[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>

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[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 arrang

[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>

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[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

[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>

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[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 conf

[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>

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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.d

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>

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[JFFS2] Clean up trailing white spaces

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>