linux-toradex.git/mm/pdflush.c, branch v2.6.27.50

pdflush: use time_after() instead of open-coding it

2008-07-25T17:53:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/pdflush.c: merge the same code in two path

2008-05-13T15:02:24+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial

2008-04-21T23:36:46+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial: (24 commits)
  DOC:  A couple corrections and clarifications in USB doc.
  Generate a slightly more informative error msg for bad HZ
  fix typo "is" -> "if" in Makefile
  ext*: spelling fix prefered -> preferred
  DOCUMENTATION:  Use newer DEFINE_SPINLOCK macro in docs.
  KEYS:  Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h.
  RAID: remove trailing space from printk line
  DMA engine: typo fixes
  Remove unused MAX_NODES_SHIFT
  MAINTAINERS: Clarify access to OCFS2 development mailing list.
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier (sn9c102)
  V4L: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  sonypi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  intel_menlow: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  DVB: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  arm: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  ALSA: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  acpi: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  firmware_sample_driver.c: fix coding style
  MAINTAINERS: Add ati_remote2 driver
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts in firmware_sample_driver.c

trivial: small cleanups

2008-04-21T22:15:06+00:00

These are small cleanups all over the tree.

Trivial style and comment changes to
  fs/select.c, kernel/signal.c, kernel/stop_machine.c & mm/pdflush.c

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl

cpuset: modify cpuset_set_cpus_allowed to use cpumask pointer

2008-04-19T17:44:58+00:00

  * Modify cpuset_cpus_allowed to return the currently allowed cpuset
    via a pointer argument instead of as the function return value.

  * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function.

  * Cleanup CPU_MASK_ALL and NODE_MASK_ALL uses.

Depends on:
	[sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default

2007-07-17T17:23:02+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h

2006-12-07T16:39:27+00:00

Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] pdflush: handle resume wakeups

2006-06-25T17:01:06+00:00

pdflush is carefully designed to ensure that all wakeups have some
corresponding work to do - if a woken-up pdflush thread discovers that it
hasn't been given any work to do then this is considered an error.

That all broke when swsusp came along - because a timer-delivered wakeup to a
frozen pdflush thread will just get lost.  This causes the pdflush thread to
get lost as well: the writeback timer is supposed to be re-armed by pdflush in
process context, but pdflush doesn't execute the callout which does this.

Fix that up by ignoring the return value from try_to_freeze(): jsut proceed,
see if we have any work pending and only go back to sleep if that is not the
case.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] More BUG_ON conversion

2006-06-23T14:43:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Acked-by: "Salyzyn, Mark" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap

2006-01-09T04:12:41+00:00

Add PF_SWAPWRITE to control a processes permission to write to swap.

- Use PF_SWAPWRITE in may_write_to_queue() instead of checking for kswapd
  and pdflush

- Set PF_SWAPWRITE flag for kswapd and pdflush

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds