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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/background.c | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/readinode.c | 42 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c index 3cceef4ad2b..e9580104b6b 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/background.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c @@ -95,13 +95,17 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c) spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock); - /* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when - other things could be running, it actually makes things a - lot worse. Use yield() and put it at the back of the runqueue - every time. Especially during boot, pulling an inode in - with read_inode() is much preferable to having the GC thread - get there first. */ - yield(); + /* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot + * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so + * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved + * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing. Yield() + * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD + * are generally competing for a higher latency resource - + * disk). + * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down. Pulling an + * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having + * the GC thread get there first. */ + schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50)); /* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem. */ diff --git a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c index 6ca08ad887c..1fc1e92356e 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *tn) { uint32_t fn_end = tn->fn->ofs + tn->fn->size; - struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *this; + struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *this, *ptn; dbg_readinode("insert fragment %#04x-%#04x, ver %u at %08x\n", tn->fn->ofs, fn_end, tn->version, ref_offset(tn->fn->raw)); @@ -251,11 +251,18 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, if (this) { /* If the node is coincident with another at a lower address, back up until the other node is found. It may be relevant */ - while (this->overlapped) - this = tn_prev(this); - - /* First node should never be marked overlapped */ - BUG_ON(!this); + while (this->overlapped) { + ptn = tn_prev(this); + if (!ptn) { + /* + * We killed a node which set the overlapped + * flags during the scan. Fix it up. + */ + this->overlapped = 0; + break; + } + this = ptn; + } dbg_readinode("'this' found %#04x-%#04x (%s)\n", this->fn->ofs, this->fn->ofs + this->fn->size, this->fn ? "data" : "hole"); } @@ -360,7 +367,17 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, } if (!this->overlapped) break; - this = tn_prev(this); + + ptn = tn_prev(this); + if (!ptn) { + /* + * We killed a node which set the overlapped + * flags during the scan. Fix it up. + */ + this->overlapped = 0; + break; + } + this = ptn; } } @@ -456,8 +473,15 @@ static int jffs2_build_inode_fragtree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, eat_last(&rii->tn_root, &last->rb); ver_insert(&ver_root, last); - if (unlikely(last->overlapped)) - continue; + if (unlikely(last->overlapped)) { + if (pen) + continue; + /* + * We killed a node which set the overlapped + * flags during the scan. Fix it up. + */ + last->overlapped = 0; + } /* Now we have a bunch of nodes in reverse version order, in the tree at ver_root. Most of the time, |