The patch titled freezer: fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is freezer-fix-jffs2-garbage-collector-freezing-issue-rev-2.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: freezer: fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Fix breakage caused by commit d5d8c5976d6adeddb8208c240460411e2198b393 "freezer: do not send signals to kernel threads" in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread() that assumed it would be sent signals by the freezer. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pete MacKay <armlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jffs2/background.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/jffs2/background.c~freezer-fix-jffs2-garbage-collector-freezing-issue-rev-2 fs/jffs2/background.c --- a/fs/jffs2/background.c~freezer-fix-jffs2-garbage-collector-freezing-issue-rev-2 +++ a/fs/jffs2/background.c @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread( /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem. */ - while (signal_pending(current)) { + while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) { siginfo_t info; unsigned long signr; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rjw@xxxxxxx are origin.patch aio-only-account-i-o-wait-time-in-read_events-if-there-are-active-requests.patch git-acpi.patch gregkh-driver-kset-convert-to-kobj_sysfs_ops-vs-git-acpi.patch freezer-fix-jffs2-garbage-collector-freezing-issue-rev-2.patch fix-proc-net-breakage.patch hwmon-coretemp-suspend-fix.patch hwmon-coretemp-suspend-fix-fix.patch page-allocator-clean-up-pcp-draining-functions.patch kernel-power-diskc-make-code-static.patch make-kernel_shutdown_prepare-static.patch proc-fix-the-threaded-proc-self.patch shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html