xref: /openbmc/linux/fs/jffs2/background.c (revision 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2)
1 /*
2  * JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
3  *
4  * Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
5  *
6  * Created by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
7  *
8  * For licensing information, see the file 'LICENCE' in this directory.
9  *
10  * $Id: background.c,v 1.50 2004/11/16 20:36:10 dwmw2 Exp $
11  *
12  */
13 
14 #include <linux/kernel.h>
15 #include <linux/jffs2.h>
16 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
17 #include <linux/completion.h>
18 #include "nodelist.h"
19 
20 
21 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *);
22 
23 void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
24 {
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);
29 }
30 
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)
33 {
34 	pid_t pid;
35 	int ret = 0;
36 
37 	if (c->gc_task)
38 		BUG();
39 
40 	init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&c->gc_thread_start);
41 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
42 
43 	pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES);
44 	if (pid < 0) {
45 		printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid);
46 		complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
47 		ret = pid;
48 	} else {
49 		/* Wait for it... */
50 		D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid));
51 		down(&c->gc_thread_start);
52 	}
53 
54 	return ret;
55 }
56 
57 void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
58 {
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);
63 	}
64 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
65 	wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
66 }
67 
68 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
69 {
70 	struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
71 
72 	daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
73 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
74 	allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
75 	allow_signal(SIGCONT);
76 
77 	c->gc_task = current;
78 	up(&c->gc_thread_start);
79 
80 	set_user_nice(current, 10);
81 
82 	for (;;) {
83 		allow_signal(SIGHUP);
84 
85 		if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
86 			set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
87 			D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread sleeping...\n"));
88 			/* Yes, there's a race here; we checked jffs2_thread_should_wake()
89 			   before setting current->state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. But it doesn't
90 			   matter - We don't care if we miss a wakeup, because the GC thread
91 			   is only an optimisation anyway. */
92 			schedule();
93 		}
94 
95 		if (try_to_freeze(0))
96 			continue;
97 
98 		cond_resched();
99 
100 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
101 		 */
102 		while (signal_pending(current)) {
103 			siginfo_t info;
104 			unsigned long signr;
105 
106 			signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
107 
108 			switch(signr) {
109 			case SIGSTOP:
110 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGSTOP received.\n"));
111 				set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
112 				schedule();
113 				break;
114 
115 			case SIGKILL:
116 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGKILL received.\n"));
117 				goto die;
118 
119 			case SIGHUP:
120 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGHUP received.\n"));
121 				break;
122 			default:
123 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): signal %ld received\n", signr));
124 			}
125 		}
126 		/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
127 		disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
128 
129 		D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): pass\n"));
130 		if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
131 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
132 			goto die;
133 		}
134 	}
135  die:
136 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
137 	c->gc_task = NULL;
138 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
139 	complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
140 }
141