First version of this patch has already been posted to LKML by Ben
Hutchings
~6 months ago, but no further action were performed.
Original Ben's message goes below.
===
rtsx_usb_ms creates a task that mostly sleeps, but tasks in
uninterruptible sleep still contribute to the load average (for
bug-compatibility with Unix). A load average of ~1 on a system that
should be idle is somewhat alarming.
Change the sleep to be interruptible, but still ignore signals.
===
v2 of this patch uses schedule_timeout_idle() instead of msleep() and
removes flush_signals() introduces in v1 of this patch as kthread
ignores
all signals unless it does allow_signal().
References: https://bugs.debian.org/765717
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksa...@natalenko.name>
---
drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c
b/drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c
index 1105db2..d34bc35 100644
--- a/drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ poll_again:
if (host->eject)
break;
- msleep(1000);
+ schedule_timeout_idle(HZ);
}
complete(&host->detect_ms_exit);
--
2.8.2
