xref: /openbmc/linux/fs/jffs2/background.c (revision 9c261b33)
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 #include <linux/kernel.h>
14 #include <linux/jffs2.h>
15 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
16 #include <linux/completion.h>
17 #include <linux/sched.h>
18 #include <linux/freezer.h>
19 #include <linux/kthread.h>
20 #include "nodelist.h"
21 
22 
23 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *);
24 
25 void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
26 {
27 	assert_spin_locked(&c->erase_completion_lock);
28 	if (c->gc_task && jffs2_thread_should_wake(c))
29 		send_sig(SIGHUP, c->gc_task, 1);
30 }
31 
32 /* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */
33 int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
34 {
35 	struct task_struct *tsk;
36 	int ret = 0;
37 
38 	BUG_ON(c->gc_task);
39 
40 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
41 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
42 
43 	tsk = kthread_run(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, "jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
44 	if (IS_ERR(tsk)) {
45 		printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %ld\n", -PTR_ERR(tsk));
46 		complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
47 		ret = PTR_ERR(tsk);
48 	} else {
49 		/* Wait for it... */
50 		jffs2_dbg(1, "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n",
51 			  tsk->pid);
52 		wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
53 		ret = tsk->pid;
54 	}
55 
56 	return ret;
57 }
58 
59 void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
60 {
61 	int wait = 0;
62 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
63 	if (c->gc_task) {
64 		jffs2_dbg(1, "jffs2: Killing GC task %d\n", c->gc_task->pid);
65 		send_sig(SIGKILL, c->gc_task, 1);
66 		wait = 1;
67 	}
68 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
69 	if (wait)
70 		wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
71 }
72 
73 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
74 {
75 	struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
76 
77 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
78 	allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
79 	allow_signal(SIGCONT);
80 
81 	c->gc_task = current;
82 	complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
83 
84 	set_user_nice(current, 10);
85 
86 	set_freezable();
87 	for (;;) {
88 		allow_signal(SIGHUP);
89 	again:
90 		spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
91 		if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
92 			set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
93 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
94 			jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): sleeping...\n", __func__);
95 			schedule();
96 		} else
97 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
98 
99 
100 		/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
101 		 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
102 		 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
103 		 * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing.  Yield()
104 		 * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
105 		 * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
106 		 * disk).
107 		 * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down.   Pulling an
108 		 * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
109 		 * the GC thread get there first. */
110 		schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
111 
112 		if (kthread_should_stop()) {
113 			jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): kthread_stop() called\n", __func__);
114 			goto die;
115 		}
116 
117 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
118 		 */
119 		while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
120 			siginfo_t info;
121 			unsigned long signr;
122 
123 			if (try_to_freeze())
124 				goto again;
125 
126 			signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
127 
128 			switch(signr) {
129 			case SIGSTOP:
130 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): SIGSTOP received\n",
131 					  __func__);
132 				set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
133 				schedule();
134 				break;
135 
136 			case SIGKILL:
137 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): SIGKILL received\n",
138 					  __func__);
139 				goto die;
140 
141 			case SIGHUP:
142 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): SIGHUP received\n",
143 					  __func__);
144 				break;
145 			default:
146 				jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): signal %ld received\n",
147 					  __func__, signr);
148 			}
149 		}
150 		/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
151 		disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
152 
153 		jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): pass\n", __func__);
154 		if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
155 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
156 			goto die;
157 		}
158 	}
159  die:
160 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
161 	c->gc_task = NULL;
162 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
163 	complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
164 }
165