The patch titled
ieee1394_core: switch to kthread API
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is
ieee1394_core-switch-to-kthread-api.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: ieee1394_core: switch to kthread API
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
This gets also rid of the MODPOST warning "drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.o -
Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .smp_locks after '' (at
offset 0x18)".
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c | 48 +++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c~ieee1394_core-switch-to-kthread-api drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c
--- 25/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c~ieee1394_core-switch-to-kthread-api Fri Jun 2 14:44:32 2006
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c Fri Jun 2 14:44:32 2006
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
#include <asm/semaphore.h>
@@ -1001,11 +1002,8 @@ void abort_timedouts(unsigned long __opa
* packets that have a "complete" function are sent here. This way, the
* completion is run out of kernel context, and doesn't block the rest of
* the stack. */
-static int khpsbpkt_pid = -1, khpsbpkt_kill;
-static DECLARE_COMPLETION(khpsbpkt_complete);
+static struct task_struct *khpsbpkt_thread;
static struct sk_buff_head hpsbpkt_queue;
-static DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(khpsbpkt_sig);
-
static void queue_packet_complete(struct hpsb_packet *packet)
{
@@ -1015,9 +1013,7 @@ static void queue_packet_complete(struct
}
if (packet->complete_routine != NULL) {
skb_queue_tail(&hpsbpkt_queue, packet->skb);
-
- /* Signal the kernel thread to handle this */
- up(&khpsbpkt_sig);
+ wake_up_process(khpsbpkt_thread);
}
return;
}
@@ -1029,19 +1025,9 @@ static int hpsbpkt_thread(void *__hi)
void (*complete_routine)(void*);
void *complete_data;
- daemonize("khpsbpkt");
-
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
- while (1) {
- if (down_interruptible(&khpsbpkt_sig)) {
- printk("khpsbpkt: received unexpected signal?!\n" );
- break;
- }
-
- if (khpsbpkt_kill)
- break;
-
+ while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&hpsbpkt_queue)) != NULL) {
packet = (struct hpsb_packet *)skb->data;
@@ -1052,9 +1038,13 @@ static int hpsbpkt_thread(void *__hi)
complete_routine(complete_data);
}
- }
- complete_and_exit(&khpsbpkt_complete, 0);
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ if (!skb_peek(&hpsbpkt_queue))
+ schedule();
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+ }
+ return 0;
}
static int __init ieee1394_init(void)
@@ -1069,10 +1059,10 @@ static int __init ieee1394_init(void)
HPSB_ERR("Some features may not be available\n");
}
- khpsbpkt_pid = kernel_thread(hpsbpkt_thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL);
- if (khpsbpkt_pid < 0) {
+ khpsbpkt_thread = kthread_run(hpsbpkt_thread, NULL, "khpsbpkt");
+ if (IS_ERR(khpsbpkt_thread)) {
HPSB_ERR("Failed to start hpsbpkt thread!\n");
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ ret = PTR_ERR(khpsbpkt_thread);
goto exit_cleanup_config_roms;
}
@@ -1152,10 +1142,7 @@ release_all_bus:
release_chrdev:
unregister_chrdev_region(IEEE1394_CORE_DEV, 256);
exit_release_kernel_thread:
- if (khpsbpkt_pid >= 0) {
- kill_proc(khpsbpkt_pid, SIGTERM, 1);
- wait_for_completion(&khpsbpkt_complete);
- }
+ kthread_stop(khpsbpkt_thread);
exit_cleanup_config_roms:
hpsb_cleanup_config_roms();
return ret;
@@ -1176,12 +1163,7 @@ static void __exit ieee1394_cleanup(void
bus_remove_file(&ieee1394_bus_type, fw_bus_attrs[i]);
bus_unregister(&ieee1394_bus_type);
- if (khpsbpkt_pid >= 0) {
- khpsbpkt_kill = 1;
- mb();
- up(&khpsbpkt_sig);
- wait_for_completion(&khpsbpkt_complete);
- }
+ kthread_stop(khpsbpkt_thread);
hpsb_cleanup_config_roms();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hch@xxxxxx are
git-ieee1394.patch
git-infiniband.patch
git-net.patch
git-powerpc.patch
megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller.patch
megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller-fix.patch
areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
git-xfs.patch
slab-cleanup-kmem_getpages.patch
slab-stop-using-list_for_each.patch
remove-steal_locks.patch
mark-address_space_operations-const.patch
fs-freevxfs-cleanup-of-spelling-errors.patch
ftruncate-does-not-always-update-m-ctime.patch
mark-address_space_operations-const-vs-ecryptfs-mmap-operations.patch
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