Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (166 commits)
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] dc395x: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ncr53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ppa: coding police and printk levels
[SCSI] aic7xxx_old: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc
[SCSI] i2o: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc from device.c
[SCSI] remove the dead CYBERSTORMIII_SCSI option
[SCSI] don't build scsi_dma_{map,unmap} for !HAS_DMA
[SCSI] Clean up scsi_add_lun a bit
[SCSI] 53c700: Remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs
[SCSI] sni_53c710: Cleanup
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix underrun/overrun conditions
[SCSI] megaraid_mbox: use mutex instead of semaphore
[SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.00-k1.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: add support for NPIV
[SCSI] stex: use resid for xfer len information
[SCSI] Add Brownie 1200U3P to blacklist
[SCSI] scsi.c: convert to use the data buffer accessors
...
Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}"
from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006.
This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and
disables them in pcilynx. That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and
hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception
and transmission.
Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso
interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no
longer useful for isochronous applications.
raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the
requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This is upwards compatible, except that integer values other than 0 or 1
are no longer accepted. But values like "Y", "N", "no", "nnoooh!" work
now.
Also, improve a comment on the serialize_io parameter and make the
ORB_SET_EXCLUSIVE macro ultra-safe.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Association of a host device with a node on NUMA machines optimizes
allocations of skbs given from the networking stack to eth1394.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
After ieee1394 was converted away from class_device like the networking
subsystem was already in 2.6.21, eth1394's device may point to the
fw-host device as its parent again like in 2.6.20.
This affects userspace tools which examine the sysfs representation of
eth1394's device.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Remove the global nodemgr_serialize mutex which enclosed most of the
host thread event loop. This allows for parallelism between several
host adapter cards.
Properly serialize the driver hooks .update(), .suspend(), .resume(),
and .remove() by means of device->sem. These hooks can be called from
outside the host threads' contexts.
Get() and put() the device.driver when calling its hooks.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Here is a straightforward conversion to "struct device". The "struct
class_device" will be removed from the kernel.
It seems to work fine for me with and without CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
set.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
I was told that only i386 aligns 64 bit integers at 4 bytes boundaries
while all other architectures (32 bit architectures with 64 bit
siblings) align it on 8 bytes boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Pointed out by Arnd Bergmann: PPC32 aligns this at 64bit, IA32 packs
it. A kernel-wide available __compat_u64 which is 4-byte aligned on
AMD64 and IA64 would be nicer though.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Add compat_ioctl. Although all structures are more or less same,
raw1394_iso_packets got pointer inside, and raw1394_cycle_timer got unwanted
padding in the middle. I did not add any translation for ioctls passing array
of integers around as integers seem to have same size (32 bits) on all
architectures supported by Linux.
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Acked-by: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (split into 3 patches)
* write(fd, buf, 52) from 32bit app was returning 56. Most of callers did not
care, but some (arm registration) did, and anyway it looks bad if request for
writing 52 bytes returns 56. And returning sizeof anything in 'int' is not
good as well. So all functions now return '0' instead of
sizeof(struct raw1394_request) on success, and write() itself provides correct
return value (it just returns value it was asked to write on success as raw1394
does not do any partial writes at all).
* Related to this was problem that write() could have returned 0 when kernel
state would become corrupted and moved to different state than
opened/initialized/connected. Now it returns -EBADFD which seemed appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Acked-by: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (split into 3 patches)
read() always failed with -EFAULT. This was happening due to
raw1394_compat_read copying data to wrong location - access_ok always
failed as 'r' is kernel address, not user. Whole function just tried to
copy data from 'r' to 'r', which is not good.
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Acked-by: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (split into 3 patches)
This patch fixes a problem that occurs when packets cannot be sent across
the ieee1394 bus and we return NETDEV_TX_BUSY in the net driver "hard start
xmit" routine ether1394_tx. When we return NETDEV_TX_BUSY the stack will
call ether1394_tx again with the same skb. So we need to restore the header
to look like it did before we munged it for xmit over ieee1394.
[Stefan Richter: changed whitespace, deleted a local variable]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
With "modprobe sbp2 long_ieee1394_id=y", the format of
/sys/bus/scsi/devices/*:*:*:*/ieee1394_id is changed from e.g.
0001041010004beb:0:0 to 0001041010004beb:00042c:0000.
The longer format fully conforms to object identifier sizes as per
SAM(-2...4) and reflects what the SAM target port identifier is meant to
contain: A Discovery ID allegedly specified by ISO/IEC 13213:1994 ---
however there is no such thing; the authors of SAM probably meant
Directory ID). Especially target nodes with multiple dynamically added
targets may use Directory IDs to persistently identify target ports.
The new format is independent of implementation details of nodemgr.
Thus the same ieee1394_id attribute format can be implemented in the new
firewire stack.
The ieee1394_id is typically used to create persistently named links in
/dev/disk/by-id.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Conflicts:
drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c
Same changes made by both SCSI and SPARC trees: problem with UTF-8
conversion in the copyright.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
While playing with libiec61883 I've noticed that async_send is broken
because it was doing copy_from_user(...., packet->data_size) before
packet->data_size was set to any useful value. It got broken when
packet->allocated_data_size got introduced, as hpsb_alloc_packet does
not set packet->data_size anymore. (Regression in 2.6.22-rc1)
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This adds a real parent device to eth1394's ethX device like in Linux
2.6.20 and older. However, due to unfinished conversion of the ieee1394
away from class_device, we now refer to the FireWire controller's PCI
device as the parent, not to the ieee1394 driver's fw-host device.
Having a real parent device instead of a virtual one allows udev scripts
to distinguish eth1394 interfaces from networking bridges, bondings and
the likes.
Fixes a regression since 2.6.21:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177199
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
When eth1394 was unable to acquire a transaction label, it just dropped
outgoing packets without attempt to resend them later.
The transmit queue is now halted if no tlabel is available to
->hard_start_xmit(). A workqueue job is then scheduled to catch the
moment when ieee1394 recycled the next lot of tlabels.
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8402
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Rafael J. Wysocki
Linus Torvalds
Al Viro
Stefan Richter
Kay Sievers
Petr Vandrovec
Carlos E. Ugarte
James Bottomley