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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-26 14:45:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-26 14:45:57 -0800
commit221be177e68e197a946bb991c8b91468e960be4e (patch)
treef77313df6358700d58cc7921551400170a8f6700 /fs
parentd49981150387c481779a544ec641f17882f4bbfb (diff)
parentb50be33e42e2c87812b30aee1a2b2a5ac6cb3ffa (diff)
downloadlinux-221be177e68e197a946bb991c8b91468e960be4e.tar.bz2
Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: [MTD] [MAPS] Remove MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() from ck804rom driver. [JFFS2] fix mount crash caused by removed nodes [JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit better [MTD] [MAPS] blackfin async requires complex mappings [MTD] [MAPS] blackfin: fix memory leak in error path [MTD] [MAPS] physmap: fix wrong free and del_mtd_{partition,device} [MTD] slram: Handle negative devlength correctly [MTD] map_rom has NULL erase pointer [MTD] [LPDDR] qinfo_probe depends on lpddr
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/background.c18
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/readinode.c42
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 3cceef4ad2b7..e9580104b6ba 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -95,13 +95,17 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
- /* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when
- other things could be running, it actually makes things a
- lot worse. Use yield() and put it at the back of the runqueue
- every time. Especially during boot, pulling an inode in
- with read_inode() is much preferable to having the GC thread
- get there first. */
- yield();
+ /* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
+ * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
+ * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
+ * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing. Yield()
+ * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
+ * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
+ * disk).
+ * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down. Pulling an
+ * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
+ * the GC thread get there first. */
+ schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
*/
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
index 6ca08ad887c0..1fc1e92356ee 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *tn)
{
uint32_t fn_end = tn->fn->ofs + tn->fn->size;
- struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *this;
+ struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *this, *ptn;
dbg_readinode("insert fragment %#04x-%#04x, ver %u at %08x\n", tn->fn->ofs, fn_end, tn->version, ref_offset(tn->fn->raw));
@@ -251,11 +251,18 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
if (this) {
/* If the node is coincident with another at a lower address,
back up until the other node is found. It may be relevant */
- while (this->overlapped)
- this = tn_prev(this);
-
- /* First node should never be marked overlapped */
- BUG_ON(!this);
+ while (this->overlapped) {
+ ptn = tn_prev(this);
+ if (!ptn) {
+ /*
+ * We killed a node which set the overlapped
+ * flags during the scan. Fix it up.
+ */
+ this->overlapped = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+ this = ptn;
+ }
dbg_readinode("'this' found %#04x-%#04x (%s)\n", this->fn->ofs, this->fn->ofs + this->fn->size, this->fn ? "data" : "hole");
}
@@ -360,7 +367,17 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
}
if (!this->overlapped)
break;
- this = tn_prev(this);
+
+ ptn = tn_prev(this);
+ if (!ptn) {
+ /*
+ * We killed a node which set the overlapped
+ * flags during the scan. Fix it up.
+ */
+ this->overlapped = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+ this = ptn;
}
}
@@ -456,8 +473,15 @@ static int jffs2_build_inode_fragtree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
eat_last(&rii->tn_root, &last->rb);
ver_insert(&ver_root, last);
- if (unlikely(last->overlapped))
- continue;
+ if (unlikely(last->overlapped)) {
+ if (pen)
+ continue;
+ /*
+ * We killed a node which set the overlapped
+ * flags during the scan. Fix it up.
+ */
+ last->overlapped = 0;
+ }
/* Now we have a bunch of nodes in reverse version
order, in the tree at ver_root. Most of the time,