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

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From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>, Pete MacKay <armlinux@...>, LKML <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: [PATCH] Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue (rev. 2)
Date: Monday, December 3, 2007 - 8:11 pm

[This is a replacement for
freezer-fix-jffs2-garbage-collector-freezing-issue.patch]
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From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.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@sisk.pl>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Pete MacKay <armlinux@architechnical.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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[PATCH] Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing issue ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Dec 3, 8:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Freezer: Fix JFFS2 garbage collector freezing is..., Len Brown, (Tue Dec 4, 2:30 am)