It allows to maintain the checks for freezing, parking, and signal
handling on a single place.
Note that the sleep with the timeout is used here to slow down
the progress a bit. It does not matter if we do it before or after
calling jffs2_garbage_collect_pass().
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/jffs2/background.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 50c16048ba2d..2d38d40e0ad1 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ static void jffs2_garbage_collect_thread_func(void *_c)
}
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
+ /* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
+ sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &hupmask, NULL);
+
+ jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): pass\n", __func__);
+ if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
+ pr_notice("No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
+ kthread_stop_current();
+ }
+ sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &hupmask, NULL);
+
/* 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
@@ -73,24 +83,7 @@ static void jffs2_garbage_collect_thread_func(void *_c)
* inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
* the GC thread get there first.
*/
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
-
- if (kthread_should_stop()) {
- jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): kthread_stop() called\n", __func__);
- return;
- }
-
- try_to_freeze();
-
- /* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
- sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &hupmask, NULL);
-
- jffs2_dbg(1, "%s(): pass\n", __func__);
- if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
- pr_notice("No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
- kthread_stop_current();
- }
- sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &hupmask, NULL);
+ set_kthread_iterant_int_sleep_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
}
static void jffs2_garbage_collect_thread_destroy(void *_c)
--
1.8.5.6
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