From 99f9b2431ed3da4a66cf1cfe74132a53a9569bba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:58:33 -0600 Subject: [MTD] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread API thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking around blocking signals directly. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 19 +++++-------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c') diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c index b879a66daa9e..1aa018abd332 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include static LIST_HEAD(blktrans_majors); @@ -83,17 +84,6 @@ static int mtd_blktrans_thread(void *arg) /* we might get involved when memory gets low, so use PF_MEMALLOC */ current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC | PF_NOFREEZE; - daemonize("%sd", tr->name); - - /* daemonize() doesn't do this for us since some kernel threads - actually want to deal with signals. We can't just call - exit_sighand() since that'll cause an oops when we finally - do exit. */ - spin_lock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); - sigfillset(¤t->blocked); - recalc_sigpending(); - spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); - spin_lock_irq(rq->queue_lock); while (!tr->blkcore_priv->exiting) { @@ -365,6 +355,7 @@ static struct mtd_notifier blktrans_notifier = { int register_mtd_blktrans(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr) { + struct task_struct *task; int ret, i; /* Register the notifier if/when the first device type is @@ -403,13 +394,13 @@ int register_mtd_blktrans(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr) blk_queue_hardsect_size(tr->blkcore_priv->rq, tr->blksize); tr->blkshift = ffs(tr->blksize) - 1; - ret = kernel_thread(mtd_blktrans_thread, tr, CLONE_KERNEL); - if (ret < 0) { + task = kthread_run(mtd_blktrans_thread, tr, "%sd", tr->name); + if (IS_ERR(task)) { blk_cleanup_queue(tr->blkcore_priv->rq); unregister_blkdev(tr->major, tr->name); kfree(tr->blkcore_priv); mutex_unlock(&mtd_table_mutex); - return ret; + return PTR_ERR(task); } INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tr->devs); -- cgit v1.2.3