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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-01-13 15:00:22 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-01-13 15:00:22 +0000
commit4de3a8e101150feaefa1139611a50ff37467f33e (patch)
treedaada742542518b02d7db7c5d32e715eaa5f166d /mm/backing-dev.c
parentARM: 7275/1: LPAE: Check the CPU support for the long descriptor format (diff)
parentMerge branch 'akpm' (aka "Andrew's patch-bomb, take two") (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/backing-dev.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 71034f41a2ba..7ba8feae11b8 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -600,14 +600,10 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
/*
* Finally, kill the kernel thread. We don't need to be RCU
- * safe anymore, since the bdi is gone from visibility. Force
- * unfreeze of the thread before calling kthread_stop(), otherwise
- * it would never exet if it is currently stuck in the refrigerator.
+ * safe anymore, since the bdi is gone from visibility.
*/
- if (bdi->wb.task) {
- thaw_process(bdi->wb.task);
+ if (bdi->wb.task)
kthread_stop(bdi->wb.task);
- }
}
/*