From 09c0dc68625c06f5b1e786aad0d5369b592179e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:55:42 -0700 Subject: Revert "[PATCH] kthread: update loop.c to use kthread" This reverts commit c7b2eff059fcc2d1b7085ee3d84b79fd657a537b. Hugh Dickins explains: "It seems too little tested: "losetup -d /dev/loop0" fails with EINVAL because nothing sets lo_thread; but even when you patch loop_thread() to set lo->lo_thread = current, it can't survive more than a few dozen iterations of the loop below (with a tmpfs mounted on /tst): j=0 cp /dev/zero /tst while : do let j=j+1 echo "Doing pass $j" losetup /dev/loop0 /tst/zero mkfs -t ext2 -b 1024 /dev/loop0 >/dev/null 2>&1 mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt umount /mnt losetup -d /dev/loop0 done it collapses with failed ioctl then BUG_ON(!bio). I think the original lo_done completion was more subtle and safe than the kthread conversion has allowed for." Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/loop.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/loop.h b/include/linux/loop.h index bf3d2345ce99..e76c7611d6cc 100644 --- a/include/linux/loop.h +++ b/include/linux/loop.h @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct loop_device { struct bio *lo_bio; struct bio *lo_biotail; int lo_state; - struct task_struct *lo_thread; + struct completion lo_done; struct completion lo_bh_done; struct mutex lo_ctl_mutex; int lo_pending; -- cgit v1.2.3