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jffs2: Fix serious write stall due to erase

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Drop the alloc_sem before erasing flash in
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass().
Otherwise writes are put on hold until the erase
has finised.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Joakim Tjernlund 2010-10-07 18:01:44 +02:00 committed by David Woodhouse
parent 733daa52b8
commit 81cfc9f1f4
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -219,13 +219,14 @@ int jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
if (!list_empty(&c->erase_complete_list) ||
!list_empty(&c->erase_pending_list)) {
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
mutex_unlock(&c->alloc_sem);
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_pass() erasing pending blocks\n"));
if (jffs2_erase_pending_blocks(c, 1)) {
mutex_unlock(&c->alloc_sem);
if (jffs2_erase_pending_blocks(c, 1))
return 0;
}
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "No progress from erasing blocks; doing GC anyway\n"));
spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
mutex_lock(&c->alloc_sem);
}
/* First, work out which block we're garbage-collecting */