[PATCH] jffs2_gcd_mtd3, Stopping kernel threads timed out

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 15:09 +0200, Uli Luckas wrote:
> The problem seems to happen, when suspend kicks in, after the call to 
> try_to_freeze and before the while loop in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread.
> 
> The pending freeze will cause signal_pending to return true until the 
> attempted suspend is over and thereby the while loop won't terminate until 
> the suspend times out.
> 
> This patch will call try_to_freeze from within the while loop and adds an 
> extra check for jffs2_thread_should_wake before we actually do the GC to 
> avoid calling jffs2_garbage_collect_pass at every wakeup.

Thanks. I've committed a slightly simpler fix:
http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e716dd3644c2a79d6ffa4359bac06f57479dcb34

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