xref: /openbmc/linux/fs/jffs2/background.c (revision 95e9fd10)
1 /*
2  * JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
3  *
4  * Copyright © 2001-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
5  * Copyright © 2004-2010 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
6  *
7  * Created by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
8  *
9  * For licensing information, see the file 'LICENCE' in this directory.
10  *
11  */
12 
13 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
14 
15 #include <linux/kernel.h>
16 #include <linux/jffs2.h>
17 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
18 #include <linux/completion.h>
19 #include <linux/sched.h>
20 #include <linux/freezer.h>
21 #include <linux/kthread.h>
22 #include "nodelist.h"
23 
24 
25 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *);
26 
27 void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
28 {
29 	assert_spin_locked(&c->erase_completion_lock);
30 	if (c->gc_task && jffs2_thread_should_wake(c))
31 		send_sig(SIGHUP, c->gc_task, 1);
32 }
33 
34 /* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */
35 int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
36 {
37 	struct task_struct *tsk;
38 	int ret = 0;
39 
40 	BUG_ON(c->gc_task);
41 
42 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
43 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
44 
45 	tsk = kthread_run(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, "jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
46 	if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
47 		pr_warn("fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %ld\n",
48 			-PTR_ERR(tsk));
49 		complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
50 		ret = PTR_ERR(tsk);
51 	} else {
52 		/* Wait for it... */
53 		jffs2_dbg(1, "Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", tsk->pid);
54 		wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
55 		ret = tsk->pid;
56 	}
57 
58 	return ret;
59 }
60 
61 void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
62 {
63 	int wait = 0;
64 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
65 	if (c->gc_task) {
66 		jffs2_dbg(1, "Killing GC task %d\n", c->gc_task->pid);
67 		send_sig(SIGKILL, c->gc_task, 1);
68 		wait = 1;
69 	}
70 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
71 	if (wait)
72 		wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
73 }
74 
75 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
76 {
77 	struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
78 
79 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
80 	allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
81 	allow_signal(SIGCONT);
82 
83 	c->gc_task = current;
84 	complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
85 
86 	set_user_nice(current, 10);
87 
88 	set_freezable();
89 	for (;;) {
90 		allow_signal(SIGHUP);
91 	again:
92 		spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
93 		if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
94 			set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
95 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
96 			jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): sleeping...\n", __func__);
97 			schedule();
98 		} else
99 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
100 
101 
102 		/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
103 		 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
104 		 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
105 		 * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing.  Yield()
106 		 * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
107 		 * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
108 		 * disk).
109 		 * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down.   Pulling an
110 		 * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
111 		 * the GC thread get there first. */
112 		schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
113 
114 		if (kthread_should_stop()) {
115 			jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): kthread_stop() called\n", __func__);
116 			goto die;
117 		}
118 
119 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
120 		 */
121 		while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
122 			siginfo_t info;
123 			unsigned long signr;
124 
125 			if (try_to_freeze())
126 				goto again;
127 
128 			signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
129 
130 			switch(signr) {
131 			case SIGSTOP:
132 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): SIGSTOP received\n",
133 					  __func__);
134 				set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
135 				schedule();
136 				break;
137 
138 			case SIGKILL:
139 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): SIGKILL received\n",
140 					  __func__);
141 				goto die;
142 
143 			case SIGHUP:
144 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): SIGHUP received\n",
145 					  __func__);
146 				break;
147 			default:
148 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): signal %ld received\n",
149 					  __func__, signr);
150 			}
151 		}
152 		/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
153 		disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
154 
155 		jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): pass\n", __func__);
156 		if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
157 			pr_notice("No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
158 			goto die;
159 		}
160 	}
161  die:
162 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
163 	c->gc_task = NULL;
164 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
165 	complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
166 }
167