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Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 9e6b99bd44 [POWERPC] PS3: Frame buffer system-bus rework
Convert the ps3fb device from a platform device to a PS3 system bus device.
Fix the remove and shutdown methods to support kexec and to make ps3fb a
loadable module.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-28 19:16:42 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 92c4579dbb ps3fb: use FB_SYS_* instead of FB_CFB_*
ps3fb: Use the FB_SYS_* operations instead of the FB_CFB_* operations as the
actual frame buffer memory is part of system RAM

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Paul Mackerras 02bbc0f09c Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2007-05-08 13:37:51 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven d778c9a400 ps3fb: Use __func__ instead of __FUNCTION__
ps3fb: Replace GNU extension `__FUNCTION__' by C99 `__func__'

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04 17:59:08 -07:00
Masashi Kimoto 640729014e ps3: Make `ps3videomode -v 0 (auto mode) work again
ps3: Make `ps3videomode -v 0' (auto mode) work again

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04 17:59:08 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven bd685ac8e7 ps3fb: kill superfluous zero initializations
ps3fb: kill superfluous zero initializations

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04 17:59:08 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven eca28743b7 ps3fb: atomic fixes
ps3fb: Use atomic_dec_if_positive() instead of bogus atomic_read()/atomic_dec()
combinations

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04 17:59:08 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 1c0c846119 ps3fb: thread updates
ps3fb: Replace the kernel_thread and the semaphore by a proper kthread, which
is simply woken up when the screen must be updated

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04 17:59:08 -07:00
Geoff Levand dc4f60c25a [POWERPC] PS3: Interrupt routine fixups.
Fixups for the ps3 interrupt routines to support all HV device
in a generic way.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-02 20:04:31 +10:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 310d8c1112 [PATCH] ps3: Virtual Frame Buffer Driver
Add the PS3 Virtual Frame Buffer Driver.

As the actual graphics hardware cannot be accessed directly by Linux, ps3fb
uses a virtual frame buffer in main memory.  The actual screen image is copied
to graphics memory by the GPU on every vertical blank, by making a hypervisor
call.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:44 -08:00