ieee1394_core: switch to kthread API This gets also rid of the MODPOST warning "drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .smp_locks after '' (at offset 0x18)". Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c 2006-06-03 13:35:40.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c 2006-06-03 13:36:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -1001,11 +1002,8 @@ void abort_timedouts(unsigned long __opa * packets that have a "complete" function are sent here. This way, the * completion is run out of kernel context, and doesn't block the rest of * the stack. */ -static int khpsbpkt_pid = -1, khpsbpkt_kill; -static DECLARE_COMPLETION(khpsbpkt_complete); +static struct task_struct *khpsbpkt_thread; static struct sk_buff_head hpsbpkt_queue; -static DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(khpsbpkt_sig); - static void queue_packet_complete(struct hpsb_packet *packet) { @@ -1015,9 +1013,7 @@ static void queue_packet_complete(struct } if (packet->complete_routine != NULL) { skb_queue_tail(&hpsbpkt_queue, packet->skb); - - /* Signal the kernel thread to handle this */ - up(&khpsbpkt_sig); + wake_up_process(khpsbpkt_thread); } return; } @@ -1029,19 +1025,9 @@ static int hpsbpkt_thread(void *__hi) void (*complete_routine)(void*); void *complete_data; - daemonize("khpsbpkt"); - current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; - while (1) { - if (down_interruptible(&khpsbpkt_sig)) { - printk("khpsbpkt: received unexpected signal?!\n" ); - break; - } - - if (khpsbpkt_kill) - break; - + while (!kthread_should_stop()) { while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&hpsbpkt_queue)) != NULL) { packet = (struct hpsb_packet *)skb->data; @@ -1052,9 +1038,13 @@ static int hpsbpkt_thread(void *__hi) complete_routine(complete_data); } - } - complete_and_exit(&khpsbpkt_complete, 0); + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + if (!skb_peek(&hpsbpkt_queue)) + schedule(); + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + } + return 0; } static int __init ieee1394_init(void) @@ -1069,10 +1059,10 @@ static int __init ieee1394_init(void) HPSB_ERR("Some features may not be available\n"); } - khpsbpkt_pid = kernel_thread(hpsbpkt_thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); - if (khpsbpkt_pid < 0) { + khpsbpkt_thread = kthread_run(hpsbpkt_thread, NULL, "khpsbpkt"); + if (IS_ERR(khpsbpkt_thread)) { HPSB_ERR("Failed to start hpsbpkt thread!\n"); - ret = -ENOMEM; + ret = PTR_ERR(khpsbpkt_thread); goto exit_cleanup_config_roms; } @@ -1152,10 +1142,7 @@ release_all_bus: release_chrdev: unregister_chrdev_region(IEEE1394_CORE_DEV, 256); exit_release_kernel_thread: - if (khpsbpkt_pid >= 0) { - kill_proc(khpsbpkt_pid, SIGTERM, 1); - wait_for_completion(&khpsbpkt_complete); - } + kthread_stop(khpsbpkt_thread); exit_cleanup_config_roms: hpsb_cleanup_config_roms(); return ret; @@ -1176,12 +1163,7 @@ static void __exit ieee1394_cleanup(void bus_remove_file(&ieee1394_bus_type, fw_bus_attrs[i]); bus_unregister(&ieee1394_bus_type); - if (khpsbpkt_pid >= 0) { - khpsbpkt_kill = 1; - mb(); - up(&khpsbpkt_sig); - wait_for_completion(&khpsbpkt_complete); - } + kthread_stop(khpsbpkt_thread); hpsb_cleanup_config_roms();