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author | Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> | 2007-06-27 01:24:09 +0200 |
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committer | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2007-06-28 19:02:15 +0100 |
commit | d364fb18cd991734eb54aa8840e70030b0c9f699 (patch) | |
tree | d007845c788cb2a5b2d35ab01fc38a944e36c087 /Documentation/hwmon/fscher | |
parent | f79c44980aae3f50fe73e50789641df265953cc6 (diff) |
[JFFS2] Reduce time for which erase_free_sem is held during erase.
With current desing erase_free_sem is locked every time the flash
block is being erased. For NOR flashes - ~1 second is needed to erase
single flash block. In the worst case scenario erase_free_sem may be
locked for a couple of seconds when the number of blocks is being
erased (e.g. after large file was removed). When erase_free_sem is
locked all read/write operations for given JFFS2 partition are locked
too - in effect from time to time access to the JFFS2 partition is
locked for a number of seconds. This fix makes critical section in
flash erasing procedure shorter - now erase_free_sem is locked around
erase_completion_lock spinlock only.
Originally from Radoslaw Bisewski
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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