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-rw-r--r--misc/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--misc/fsck.c18
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog
index 3ec27c93..e3d534b6 100644
--- a/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-07-21 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+
+ * fsck.c (wait_many): Rename wait_all() to wait_many(), and have
+ new semantics: WAIT_ALL vs. WAIT_ATLEAST_ONE. This fixes
+ a bug where when fsck is waiting for another partition on
+ the same spindle, it spins wasting a lot of CPU.
+
2003-07-12 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
* badblocks.c (do_read, do_write, test_rw): Change the read/write
diff --git a/misc/fsck.c b/misc/fsck.c
index b069cd58..28bd7a2a 100644
--- a/misc/fsck.c
+++ b/misc/fsck.c
@@ -635,22 +635,27 @@ ret_inst:
return inst;
}
+#define FLAG_WAIT_ALL 0
+#define FLAG_WAIT_ATLEAST_ONE 1
/*
* Wait until all executing child processes have exited; return the
* logical OR of all of their exit code values.
*/
-static int wait_all(int flags)
+static int wait_many(int flags)
{
struct fsck_instance *inst;
int global_status = 0;
+ int wait_flags = 0;
- while ((inst = wait_one(flags))) {
+ while ((inst = wait_one(wait_flags))) {
global_status |= inst->exit_status;
free_instance(inst);
#ifdef RANDOM_DEBUG
if (noexecute && (flags & WNOHANG) && !(random() % 3))
break;
#endif
+ if (flags & FLAG_WAIT_ATLEAST_ONE)
+ wait_flags = WNOHANG;
}
return global_status;
}
@@ -943,7 +948,7 @@ static int check_all(NOARGS)
if (fs) {
if (!skip_root && !ignore(fs)) {
fsck_device(fs, 1);
- status |= wait_all(0);
+ status |= wait_many(FLAG_WAIT_ALL);
if (status > EXIT_NONDESTRUCT)
return status;
}
@@ -1007,7 +1012,8 @@ static int check_all(NOARGS)
break;
if (verbose > 1)
printf(_("--waiting-- (pass %d)\n"), passno);
- status |= wait_all(pass_done ? 0 : WNOHANG);
+ status |= wait_many(pass_done ? FLAG_WAIT_ALL :
+ FLAG_WAIT_ATLEAST_ONE);
if (pass_done) {
if (verbose > 1)
printf("----------------------------------\n");
@@ -1019,7 +1025,7 @@ static int check_all(NOARGS)
kill_all(SIGTERM);
kill_sent++;
}
- status |= wait_all(0);
+ status |= wait_many(FLAG_WAIT_ATLEAST_ONE);
return status;
}
@@ -1264,7 +1270,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
printf("----------------------------------\n");
}
}
- status |= wait_all(0);
+ status |= wait_many(FLAG_WAIT_ALL);
free(fsck_path);
blkid_put_cache(cache);
return status;