[PATCH 1/4 (final?)] ps3fb: thread updates

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Feb 22 10:20:47 EST 2007


On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:42:04 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:

> ps3fb: Replace the kernel_thread and the semaphore by a proper kthread, which is
> simply woken up when the screen must be updated

<goes off and generates the incremental diff again so we can see what changed>


diff -puN drivers/video/ps3fb.c~ps3fb-thread-updates-2 drivers/video/ps3fb.c
--- a/drivers/video/ps3fb.c~ps3fb-thread-updates-2
+++ a/drivers/video/ps3fb.c
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 #include <linux/ioctl.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
-#include <linux/freezer.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -808,16 +807,13 @@ static int ps3fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *i
 
 static int ps3fbd(void *arg)
 {
-	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
-	DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(wq);
-
 	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
-		prepare_to_wait(&wq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-		if (!ps3fb.is_kicked)
-			schedule();
-		finish_wait(&wq, &wait);
-		ps3fb.is_kicked = 0;
-		ps3fb_sync(0);	/* single buffer */
+		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+		if (ps3fb.is_kicked) {
+			ps3fb.is_kicked = 0;
+			ps3fb_sync(0);	/* single buffer */
+		}
+		schedule();
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
_

There's still no try_to_freeze() in there.  Shouldn't we have one?





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