Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [MTD] [MAPS] Remove MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() from ck804rom driver.
  [JFFS2] fix mount crash caused by removed nodes
  [JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit better
  [MTD] [MAPS] blackfin async requires complex mappings
  [MTD] [MAPS] blackfin: fix memory leak in error path
  [MTD] [MAPS] physmap: fix wrong free and del_mtd_{partition,device}
  [MTD] slram: Handle negative devlength correctly
  [MTD] map_rom has NULL erase pointer
  [MTD] [LPDDR] qinfo_probe depends on lpddr

2 files changed, 44 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c
index 3cceef4..e958010 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/background.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c
@@ -95,13 +95,17 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
 			spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
 			
 
-		/* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when
-		   other things could be running, it actually makes things a
-		   lot worse. Use yield() and put it at the back of the runqueue
-		   every time. Especially during boot, pulling an inode in
-		   with read_inode() is much preferable to having the GC thread
-		   get there first. */
-		yield();
+		/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
+		 * of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
+		 * that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
+		 * despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing.  Yield()
+		 * doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
+		 * are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
+		 * disk).
+		 * This forces the GCD to slow the hell down.   Pulling an
+		 * inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
+		 * the GC thread get there first. */
+		schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
 
 		/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
 		 */
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
index 6ca08ad..1fc1e92 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 				struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *tn)
 {
 	uint32_t fn_end = tn->fn->ofs + tn->fn->size;
-	struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *this;
+	struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *this, *ptn;
 
 	dbg_readinode("insert fragment %#04x-%#04x, ver %u at %08x\n", tn->fn->ofs, fn_end, tn->version, ref_offset(tn->fn->raw));
 
@@ -251,11 +251,18 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 	if (this) {
 		/* If the node is coincident with another at a lower address,
 		   back up until the other node is found. It may be relevant */
-		while (this->overlapped)
-			this = tn_prev(this);
-
-		/* First node should never be marked overlapped */
-		BUG_ON(!this);
+		while (this->overlapped) {
+			ptn = tn_prev(this);
+			if (!ptn) {
+				/*
+				 * We killed a node which set the overlapped
+				 * flags during the scan. Fix it up.
+				 */
+				this->overlapped = 0;
+				break;
+			}
+			this = ptn;
+		}
 		dbg_readinode("'this' found %#04x-%#04x (%s)\n", this->fn->ofs, this->fn->ofs + this->fn->size, this->fn ? "data" : "hole");
 	}
 
@@ -360,7 +367,17 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 			}
 			if (!this->overlapped)
 				break;
-			this = tn_prev(this);
+
+			ptn = tn_prev(this);
+			if (!ptn) {
+				/*
+				 * We killed a node which set the overlapped
+				 * flags during the scan. Fix it up.
+				 */
+				this->overlapped = 0;
+				break;
+			}
+			this = ptn;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -456,8 +473,15 @@ static int jffs2_build_inode_fragtree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 		eat_last(&rii->tn_root, &last->rb);
 		ver_insert(&ver_root, last);
 
-		if (unlikely(last->overlapped))
-			continue;
+		if (unlikely(last->overlapped)) {
+			if (pen)
+				continue;
+			/*
+			 * We killed a node which set the overlapped
+			 * flags during the scan. Fix it up.
+			 */
+			last->overlapped = 0;
+		}
 
 		/* Now we have a bunch of nodes in reverse version
 		   order, in the tree at ver_root. Most of the time,