xref: /openbmc/linux/fs/jffs2/background.c (revision efab0b5d)
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 		/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
99 		 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
100 		 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
101 		 * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing.  Yield()
102 		 * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
103 		 * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
104 		 * disk).
105 		 * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down.   Pulling an
106 		 * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
107 		 * the GC thread get there first. */
108 		schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
109 
110 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
111 		 */
112 		while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
113 			siginfo_t info;
114 			unsigned long signr;
115 
116 			if (try_to_freeze())
117 				goto again;
118 
119 			signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
120 
121 			switch(signr) {
122 			case SIGSTOP:
123 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGSTOP received.\n"));
124 				set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
125 				schedule();
126 				break;
127 
128 			case SIGKILL:
129 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGKILL received.\n"));
130 				goto die;
131 
132 			case SIGHUP:
133 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGHUP received.\n"));
134 				break;
135 			default:
136 				D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): signal %ld received\n", signr));
137 			}
138 		}
139 		/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
140 		disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
141 
142 		D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): pass\n"));
143 		if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
144 			printk(KERN_NOTICE "No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
145 			goto die;
146 		}
147 	}
148  die:
149 	spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
150 	c->gc_task = NULL;
151 	spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
152 	complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
153 }
154