xref: /openbmc/linux/fs/jffs2/background.c (revision b27cf88e)
1 /*
2  * JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
3  *
4  * Copyright © 2001-2007 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  */
11 
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>
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 	BUG_ON(c->gc_task);
38 
39 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
40 	init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
41 
42 	pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES);
43 	if (pid < 0) {
44 		printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid);
45 		complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
46 		ret = pid;
47 	} else {
48 		/* Wait for it... */
49 		D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid));
50 		wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
51 	}
52 
53 	return ret;
54 }
55 
56 void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
57 {
58 	int wait = 0;
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 		wait = 1;
64 	}
65 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
66 	if (wait)
67 		wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
68 }
69 
70 static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
71 {
72 	struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
73 
74 	daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
75 	allow_signal(SIGKILL);
76 	allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
77 	allow_signal(SIGCONT);
78 
79 	c->gc_task = current;
80 	complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
81 
82 	set_user_nice(current, 10);
83 
84 	set_freezable();
85 	for (;;) {
86 		allow_signal(SIGHUP);
87 	again:
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"));
93 			schedule();
94 		} else
95 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
96 
97 
98 		/* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when
99 		   other things could be running, it actually makes things a
100 		   lot worse. Use yield() and put it at the back of the runqueue
101 		   every time. Especially during boot, pulling an inode in
102 		   with read_inode() is much preferable to having the GC thread
103 		   get there first. */
104 		yield();
105 
106 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
107 		 */
108 		while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
109 			siginfo_t info;
110 			unsigned long signr;
111 
112 			if (try_to_freeze())
113 				goto again;
114 
115 			signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
116 
117 			switch(signr) {
118 			case SIGSTOP:
119 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGSTOP received.\n"));
120 				set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
121 				schedule();
122 				break;
123 
124 			case SIGKILL:
125 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGKILL received.\n"));
126 				goto die;
127 
128 			case SIGHUP:
129 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGHUP received.\n"));
130 				break;
131 			default:
132 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): signal %ld received\n", signr));
133 			}
134 		}
135 		/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
136 		disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
137 
138 		D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): pass\n"));
139 		if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
140 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
141 			goto die;
142 		}
143 	}
144  die:
145 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
146 	c->gc_task = NULL;
147 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
148 	complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
149 }
150