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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-10 07:26:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-10 07:26:27 -0700
commitff3cb3fec3c5bbb5110e652bbdd410bc99a47e9f (patch)
tree5b6834a3a4ecd479d544f8cc8cd10811c1ae13e1 /mm
parent6ccaa3172941c0a97c7f1c5155b1d32ecd27ec2f (diff)
parentbe14eb619108fa8b7120eb2c42d66d5f623ae10e (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: Range check cpu in blk_cpu_to_group scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc fails writeback: Fix lost wake-up shutting down writeback thread writeback: do not lose wakeup events when forking bdi threads cciss: fix reporting of max queue depth since init block: switch s390 tape_block and mg_disk to elevator_change() block: add function call to switch the IO scheduler from a driver fs/bio-integrity.c: return -ENOMEM on kmalloc failure bio-integrity.c: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL BLOCK: fix bio.bi_rw handling block: put dev->kobj in blk_register_queue fail path cciss: handle allocation failure cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables cfq-iosched: blktrace print per slice sector stats cfq-iosched: Implement tunable group_idle cfq-iosched: Do group share accounting in IOPS when slice_idle=0 cfq-iosched: Do not idle if slice_idle=0 cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices blkio: Fix return code for mkdir calls
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index eaa4a5bbe06..c2bf86f470e 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -445,8 +445,8 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
switch (action) {
case FORK_THREAD:
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
- task = kthread_run(bdi_writeback_thread, &bdi->wb, "flush-%s",
- dev_name(bdi->dev));
+ task = kthread_create(bdi_writeback_thread, &bdi->wb,
+ "flush-%s", dev_name(bdi->dev));
if (IS_ERR(task)) {
/*
* If thread creation fails, force writeout of
@@ -457,10 +457,13 @@ static int bdi_forker_thread(void *ptr)
/*
* The spinlock makes sure we do not lose
* wake-ups when racing with 'bdi_queue_work()'.
+ * And as soon as the bdi thread is visible, we
+ * can start it.
*/
spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
bdi->wb.task = task;
spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock);
+ wake_up_process(task);
}
break;