Commit 70d38b96 authored by Kevin Cernekee's avatar Kevin Cernekee Committed by Artem Bityutskiy

UBI: remove reboot notifier

The UBI reboot notifier causes problems with hibernation.  Move this
functionality into the low-level MTD driver instead.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
parent 01bf0b64
......@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "ubi.h"
......@@ -831,34 +830,6 @@ static int autoresize(struct ubi_device *ubi, int vol_id)
return 0;
}
/**
* ubi_reboot_notifier - halt UBI transactions immediately prior to a reboot.
* @n: reboot notifier object
* @state: SYS_RESTART, SYS_HALT, or SYS_POWER_OFF
* @cmd: pointer to command string for RESTART2
*
* This function stops the UBI background thread so that the flash device
* remains quiescent when Linux restarts the system. Any queued work will be
* discarded, but this function will block until do_work() finishes if an
* operation is already in progress.
*
* This function solves a real-life problem observed on NOR flashes when an
* PEB erase operation starts, then the system is rebooted before the erase is
* finishes, and the boot loader gets confused and dies. So we prefer to finish
* the ongoing operation before rebooting.
*/
static int ubi_reboot_notifier(struct notifier_block *n, unsigned long state,
void *cmd)
{
struct ubi_device *ubi;
ubi = container_of(n, struct ubi_device, reboot_notifier);
if (ubi->bgt_thread)
kthread_stop(ubi->bgt_thread);
ubi_sync(ubi->ubi_num);
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
/**
* ubi_attach_mtd_dev - attach an MTD device.
* @mtd: MTD device description object
......@@ -1016,11 +987,6 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num, int vid_hdr_offset)
wake_up_process(ubi->bgt_thread);
spin_unlock(&ubi->wl_lock);
/* Flash device priority is 0 - UBI needs to shut down first */
ubi->reboot_notifier.priority = 1;
ubi->reboot_notifier.notifier_call = ubi_reboot_notifier;
register_reboot_notifier(&ubi->reboot_notifier);
ubi_devices[ubi_num] = ubi;
ubi_notify_all(ubi, UBI_VOLUME_ADDED, NULL);
return ubi_num;
......@@ -1091,7 +1057,6 @@ int ubi_detach_mtd_dev(int ubi_num, int anyway)
* Before freeing anything, we have to stop the background thread to
* prevent it from doing anything on this device while we are freeing.
*/
unregister_reboot_notifier(&ubi->reboot_notifier);
if (ubi->bgt_thread)
kthread_stop(ubi->bgt_thread);
......
......@@ -350,7 +350,6 @@ struct ubi_wl_entry;
* @bgt_thread: background thread description object
* @thread_enabled: if the background thread is enabled
* @bgt_name: background thread name
* @reboot_notifier: notifier to terminate background thread before rebooting
*
* @flash_size: underlying MTD device size (in bytes)
* @peb_count: count of physical eraseblocks on the MTD device
......@@ -436,7 +435,6 @@ struct ubi_device {
struct task_struct *bgt_thread;
int thread_enabled;
char bgt_name[sizeof(UBI_BGT_NAME_PATTERN)+2];
struct notifier_block reboot_notifier;
/* I/O sub-system's stuff */
long long flash_size;
......
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