* Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is my patch proposal for detecting possible lockups, when
flush_workqueue caller holds a lock (e.g. rtnl_lock) also used in work
functions.
looks good in principle - did you test it and it caught a bug that wasnt
caught before?
+#ifdef
* Christian Hesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I now got some error message from my system:
http://www.eworm.de/tmp/cfs-suspend.jpg
ah, this pinpoints a bug: for performance reasons pick_next_task()
assumes that the runqueue is not empty - which is true for schedule(),
but not in
* Bob Picco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had hoped to collect more data with CFS V2. It crashes in
scale_nice_down for s2ram when attempting to disable_nonboot_cpus. So
part of traceback looks like (typed by hand with obvious omissions):
scale_nice_down
update_stats_wait_end - not shown
Pine.LNX.4.64.0704181515290.25880 () alien ! or ! mcafeemobile ! com
Davide Libenzi wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
That's one reason why i dont think it's necessarily a good idea to
group-schedule threads, we dont really want to do a per thread group
percpu_alloc().
I
snip
I'm pretty sure the reason you cannot reproduce this warning is the line
xsl:param name=refentry.version.suppress1/xsl:param
which can be found in param.xsl, it being a part of the docbook-xsl
distribution. The parameter's name is self-explanatory and a '1' suppresses
the
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:16:54AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:29:43 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
Sorry for the improper whitespaces, here's a correct version.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: 21-rc6/scripts/kernel-doc
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And yes, by fairly, I mean fairly among all threads as a base
resource class, because that's what Linux has always done
Yes, there are potential compatibility problems. Example: a machine
with 100 busy httpd processes and suddenly a big gzip
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i just tried the same and it suspended+resumed just fine:
Restarting tasks ... done.
Suspend2 debugging info:
- Suspend core : 2.2.9.12
- Kernel Version : 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v3
the key difference was that i should have attempted to sw-suspend to
disk
Hi,
IMHO cancel_rearming_delayed_work is dangerous place:
- it assumes a work function always rearms (with no exception),
which probably isn't explained enough now (but anyway should
be checked in such loops);
- probably possible (theoretical) scenario: a few work
functions rearm themselves
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 23:48 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
so my current impression is that we want per UID accounting to solve the
X problem, the kernel threads problem and the many-users problem, but
i'd not want to do it for threads just yet because for them there's not
really any apparent
Hi Len,
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:42:56 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:28:07PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
Otherwise it looks OK to me, I take the patch. If others have comments
or objections, just speak up and submit incremental patches as needed.
Now I would
The following patches are against 2.6.21.rc6-mm1.
Hopefully that is enough to catch most of the recent development
activity.
I am aiming to remove all kernel threads that handle signals
from user space, to remove all calls to daemonize and kernel_thread
from non-core kernel code.
kernel
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:14:16AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is my patch proposal for detecting possible lockups, when
flush_workqueue caller holds a lock (e.g. rtnl_lock) also used in work
functions.
looks good in principle - did you
This patch just trivial converts from calling kernel_thread and daemonize
to just calling kthread_run.
Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c |5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking
around blocking signals directly.
CC: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 19
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
kthread_run replaces the kernel_thread and daemonize calls
during thread startup.
Calls to signal_pending were also removed as it is currently
impossible for the cpci_hotplug thread to receive signals.
CC: Scott Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
kthread_run replaces kernel_thread and dameonize.
allow_signal is unnecessary and has been removed.
tid_poll was unused and has been removed.
Cc: Jyoti Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch just trivially replaces kernel_thread and daemonize
with a single call to kthread_run.
CC: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c |5
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:41 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
Mike you were the stick.
(dirty job, somebody has to do it)
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From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch starts up khidp using kthread_run instead
of kernel_thread and daemonize, resulting is slightly
simpler and more maintainable code.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
It is my goal to replace all kernel code that handles signals
from user space, calls kernel_thread or calls daemonize. All
of which the kthread_api makes unncessary. Handling signals
from user space is a maintenance problem becuase using a
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Modify startup of ipvs sync threads to use kthread_run
instead of a weird combination of calling kernel_thread
to start a fork_sync_thread whose hole purpose in life was
to call kernel_thread again starting the actually sync thread
which called
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
To start the nfsv4-delegreturn thread this patch uses
kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread
and daemonize.
In addition allow_signal(SIGKILL) is removed from
the expire delegations thread.
Cc: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Cc: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Start the reclaimer thread using kthread_run instead
of a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize.
The small amount of signal handling code is also removed
as it makes no sense and is a maintenance problem to handle
signals in kernel
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch starts krfcommd using kthread_run instead of a combination
of kernel_thread and daemonize making the code slightly simpler
and more maintainable.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Use kthread_run to start the lcs kernel threads not a
combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. This makes
the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Frank Pavlic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start
with ktrhead_run not kernel_thread and deamonize. Doing
this makes the code a little simpler and easier to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This starts the sparc64 powerd using kthread_run
instead of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the
code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
In addition the unnecessary flush_signals is removed.
Cc: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the sas scsi host thread startup
to use kthread_run not kernel_thread and deamonize.
kthread_run is slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Darrick J. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch changes cpqphp to use kthread_run and not
kernel_thread and daemonize to startup and setup
the cpqphp thread.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of kafscmd, kafsasyncd, and kafstimod
to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread and
daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
In addition since by default all signals
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch starts the xpc kernel threads using kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Resuling
in slightly simpler and more maintainable code.
Cc: Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Tony Luck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Nigel Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From subsequent emails, I think you already got your answer, but just
in case...
Yes, if you enabled Replace swsusp by default and you already had it
set up for getting swsusp to resume. If not, and you're using an
initrd/ramfs, you'll need
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use
kthread_run not a kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread
and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more
maintainable.
Cc: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of eehd to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making
the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the qeth_recover thread to be started
with kthread_run not a combination of kernel_thread and
daemonize. Resulting in slightly simpler and more maintainable
code.
Cc: Frank Pavlic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Modify zfcperp%s to be started with kthread_run not
a combination of kernel_thread, daemonize and siginitsetinv
making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Swen Schillig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of krxtimod, krxiod, and krxsecd
to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread
and daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
In addition since by default all signals are
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch starts kbenpd using kthread_run replacing
a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making
the code a little simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the kcmptd_ctr_%d daemon using kthread_run
instead of a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize making
the code a little simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of the media_bay_task
to use kthread_run and not a combination of kernel_thread,
deamonize and sigfillset.
In addition since we now always want to ignore signals
the MB_IGNORE_SIGNALS define is removed along
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Currently md_thread calls allow_signal so it can receive a
SIGKILL but then does nothing with it except flush the
sigkill so that it not can use an interruptible sleep.
This whole dance is silly so remove the unnecessary
and broken signal
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W.
* Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With a heavily reniced X (perfectly fine), that should indeed solve my
daily usage pattern nicely (always need godmode for shells, but not
for mozilla and ilk. 50/50 split automatic without renice of entire
gui)
how about the first-approximation
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch is a minimal transformation to use the kthread API
doing it's best to preserve the existing logic.
Instead of starting kdvb-ca by calling kernel_thread,
daemonize and sigfillset we kthread_run is used.
Instead of tracking the pid
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of kadbprobe to use
kthread_run instead of scheduling a work event which
later calls kernel_thread and in the thread calls
daemonize and blocks signals. kthread_run is simpler
and more maintainable.
The
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
This patch modifies the startup of rtasd to use kthread_run instaed of
a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code a little
simpler and more maintainble.
Cc: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Start the g4fand using kthread_run not a combination
of kernel_thread and deamonize. This makes the code
a little simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abhijit Bhopatkar wrote:
In my mind i find it fundamentally wrong to separate anon pages from
page cache. It should rather be lot more dependent on which task
accessed them last. Although it seems due to some twisted relationships
bet anon pages and interactive tasks separating them improves
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Cc: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Cc: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/synchro-test.c | 16 ++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/synchro-test.c
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/smbfs/smbiod.c |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c b/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
index 3e61b44..67176af 100644
--- a/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
+++
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:52 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 23:48 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
so my current impression is that we want per UID accounting to solve the
X problem, the kernel threads problem and the many-users problem, but
i'd not want to do it for threads
A fixed version of the patch shutting up missing version warnings when building
mandocs.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Index: 21-rc7/scripts/kernel-doc
===
--- 21-rc7.orig/scripts/kernel-doc
+++
On Apr 18 2007 09:39, Stephen Clark wrote:
So this is the pop I hear on my new laptop that is using
libata=combined_mode when I shut my system down. I didn't get the
pop with the same disk drive in an older laptop that was only ide.
It sounds like a relay closing or opening, but is really my
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 09:09 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With a heavily reniced X (perfectly fine), that should indeed solve my
daily usage pattern nicely (always need godmode for shells, but not
for mozilla and ilk. 50/50 split automatic without
* Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ int i = 1000;
- while (!cancel_delayed_work(dwork))
+ while (!cancel_delayed_work(dwork)) {
flush_workqueue(wq);
+ BUG_ON(!i--);
+ }
if then make it a
On Apr 18 2007 10:45, david rankin wrote:
Mates,
First post and I am having heck building the vanilla 2.6.20.7 kernel on
Suse 10.0. Basically I put 2.6.20.7 in /usr/src, then I did
[...]
All current minimal requierments are met *except* udev which is version
068. Everything compiled
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:35:58 +0530, Milind Arun Choudhary wrote:
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
i2c-pxa.c |2 +-
i2c-s3c2410.c |2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Hi,
Doing some testing on CFQ, I ran into this 100% reproducible report:
===
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.21-rc7 #5
---
fio/9741 is trying to acquire lock:
I'm looking for a little advice on writing a driver for the Phillips
sc16is752 SPI UART chip. I've written drivers before but I'm having a
problem with this one. Since this driver is both an SPI driver and a
UART driver I'm unclear on whether it should register with
spi_register_driver() or
Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:
Any new ETA? I'm trying to decide whether to go back to your original
patches or wait for the new set. Adding new knobs isn't as important to me as
having something that fixes the core problem, so hopefully this isn't
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, there are potential compatibility problems. Example: a machine
with 100 busy httpd processes and suddenly a big gzip starts up from
console or cron.
[...]
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:38:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
h. How about the
* Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's one reason why i dont think it's necessarily a good idea to
group-schedule threads, we dont really want to do a per thread group
percpu_alloc().
I still do not have clear how much overhead this will bring into the
table, but I think
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:38:30 +0200 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Doing some testing on CFQ, I ran into this 100% reproducible report:
===
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.21-rc7 #5
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch just trivially replaces kernel_thread and daemonize
with a single call to kthread_run.
CC: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c |5 ++---
1 files
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kthread_run replaces kernel_thread and dameonize.
allow_signal is unnecessary and has been removed.
tid_poll was unused and has been removed.
Cc: Jyoti Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start
with ktrhead_run not kernel_thread and deamonize. Doing
this makes the code a little simpler and easier to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
This patch just trivial converts from calling kernel_thread and daemonize
to just calling kthread_run.
Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c |5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch starts up khidp using kthread_run instead
of kernel_thread and daemonize, resulting is slightly
simpler and more maintainable code.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch starts krfcommd using kthread_run instead of a combination
of kernel_thread and daemonize making the code slightly simpler
and more maintainable.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the qeth_recover thread to be started
with kthread_run not a combination of kernel_thread and
daemonize. Resulting in slightly simpler and more maintainable
code.
Cc: Frank Pavlic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/synchro-test.c | 16 ++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/synchro-test.c b/kernel/synchro-test.c
index
On 4/17/07, David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In this case I'm not entirely sure how it'd work. I've seen a few
drivers which let userspace peek and poke at GPIO signals -- like
one for Gumstix boards -- but generalizing the model isn't simple.
Sub-problems include:
- Configuring the
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This starts the sparc64 powerd using kthread_run
instead of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the
code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
In addition the unnecessary flush_signals is removed.
Cc: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by:
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modify zfcperp%s to be started with kthread_run not
a combination of kernel_thread, daemonize and siginitsetinv
making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Swen Schillig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch changes cpqphp to use kthread_run and not
kernel_thread and daemonize to startup and setup
the cpqphp thread.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_ctrl.c |
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking
around blocking signals directly.
CC: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 19 +--
1
On 4/17/07, Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems trivial to keep the last key you were given and do a quick
memcmp in your setkey method to see if it's different from the last
key you pushed to hardware, and set a flag if it is. Then only do
your set_key() if you have a
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is my goal to replace all kernel code that handles signals
from user space, calls kernel_thread or calls daemonize. All
of which the kthread_api makes unncessary. Handling signals
from user space is a maintenance problem becuase using a
kernel thread
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch is a minimal transformation to use the kthread API
doing it's best to preserve the existing logic.
Instead of starting kdvb-ca by calling kernel_thread,
daemonize and sigfillset we kthread_run is used.
Instead of tracking the pid of the
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use kthread_run to start the lcs kernel threads not a
combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. This makes
the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Frank Pavlic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of eehd to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making
the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of kadbprobe to use
kthread_run instead of scheduling a work event which
later calls kernel_thread and in the thread calls
daemonize and blocks signals. kthread_run is simpler
and more maintainable.
The variable pid_t
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the sas scsi host thread startup
to use kthread_run not kernel_thread and deamonize.
kthread_run is slightly simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Darrick J. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by:
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kthread_run replaces the kernel_thread and daemonize calls
during thread startup.
Calls to signal_pending were also removed as it is currently
impossible for the cpci_hotplug thread to receive signals.
CC: Scott Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by:
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies startup of the kfand to use kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize, making
the code a little simpler and more maintaintable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch starts the xpc kernel threads using kthread_run
not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Resuling
in slightly simpler and more maintainable code.
Cc: Jes Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Tony Luck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of krxtimod, krxiod, and krxsecd
to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread
and daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
In addition since by default all signals are ignored when
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of kafscmd, kafsasyncd, and kafstimod
to use kthread_run instead of a combination of kernel_thread and
daemonize making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
In addition since by default all signals are ignored
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the kcmptd_ctr_%d daemon using kthread_run
instead of a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize making
the code a little simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of the media_bay_task
to use kthread_run and not a combination of kernel_thread,
deamonize and sigfillset.
In addition since we now always want to ignore signals
the MB_IGNORE_SIGNALS define is removed along with the
test
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of rtasd to use kthread_run instaed of
a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code a little
simpler and more maintainble.
Cc: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch starts kbenpd using kthread_run replacing
a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making
the code a little simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use
kthread_run not a kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread
and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more
maintainable.
Cc: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Start the g4fand using kthread_run not a combination
of kernel_thread and deamonize. This makes the code
a little simpler and more maintainable.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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fs/smbfs/smbiod.c |2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c b/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
index 3e61b44..67176af 100644
--- a/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
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