linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)

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Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:30:35 -0500
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Pete MacKay <armlinux@...hitechnical.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)

Applied to suspend branch.

thanks,
-len

On Monday 03 December 2007 19:11, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [This is a replacement for
> freezer-fix-jffs2-garbage-collector-freezing-issue.patch]
> ---
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> 
> 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@...k.pl>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Cc: Pete MacKay <armlinux@...hitechnical.net>
> ---
>  fs/jffs2/background.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/jffs2/background.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/jffs2/background.c
> +++ linux-2.6/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;
>  
> 
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