From c7519dbf6f4b4408229d279d799c938ffdd06f21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Lavinen Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:16:09 +0200 Subject: mtd_blkdevs: Add background processing support Add a new background method into mtd_blktrans_ops, add background support into mtd_blktrans_thread(), and add mtd_blktrans_cease_background(). If the mtd blktrans dev has the background support, the thread will call background function when the request queue becomes empty. The background operation may run as long as needs to until mtd_blktrans_cease_background() tells to stop. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- include/linux/mtd/blktrans.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mtd/blktrans.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/blktrans.h b/include/linux/mtd/blktrans.h index 26529ebd59c..66bec4bf2b0 100644 --- a/include/linux/mtd/blktrans.h +++ b/include/linux/mtd/blktrans.h @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ struct mtd_blktrans_ops { unsigned long block, char *buffer); int (*discard)(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev, unsigned long block, unsigned nr_blocks); + void (*background)(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev); /* Block layer ioctls */ int (*getgeo)(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev, struct hd_geometry *geo); @@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ extern int register_mtd_blktrans(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr); extern int deregister_mtd_blktrans(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr); extern int add_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev); extern int del_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev); +extern int mtd_blktrans_cease_background(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *dev); #endif /* __MTD_TRANS_H__ */ -- cgit v1.2.3