From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:23:45 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: async: make async a command line option for now
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~16^2
X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=commitdiff_plain;h=cdb80f630be5cbc23d82331f24dc4704f75b64f4

async: make async a command line option for now

... and have it default off.
This does allow people to work with it for testing.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---

diff --git a/kernel/async.c b/kernel/async.c
index 64cc916..f286e9f 100644
--- a/kernel/async.c
+++ b/kernel/async.c
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ static LIST_HEAD(async_pending);
 static LIST_HEAD(async_running);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(async_lock);
 
+static int async_enabled = 0;
+
 struct async_entry {
 	struct list_head list;
 	async_cookie_t   cookie;
@@ -169,7 +171,7 @@ static async_cookie_t __async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct l
 	 * If we're out of memory or if there's too much work
 	 * pending already, we execute synchronously.
 	 */
-	if (!entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK) {
+	if (!async_enabled || !entry || atomic_read(&entry_count) > MAX_WORK) {
 		kfree(entry);
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&async_lock, flags);
 		newcookie = next_cookie++;
@@ -316,8 +318,18 @@ static int async_manager_thread(void *unused)
 
 static int __init async_init(void)
 {
-	kthread_run(async_manager_thread, NULL, "async/mgr");
+	if (async_enabled)
+		kthread_run(async_manager_thread, NULL, "async/mgr");
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int __init setup_async(char *str)
+{
+	async_enabled = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
+
+__setup("fastboot", setup_async);
+
+
 core_initcall(async_init);