Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <> | Subject | [PATCH 06/11] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup | Date | Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:20:38 +0100 |
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From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Add some comments about requirements for ubd_io_lock and expand its use.
When an irq signals that the "controller" (i.e. another thread on the host, which does the actual requests and is the only one blocked on I/O on the host) has done some work, we call again the request function ourselves (do_ubd_request).
We now do that with ubd_io_lock held - that's useful to protect against concurrent calls to elv_next_request and so on.
XXX: Maybe we shouldn't call at all the request function. Input needed on this. Are we supposed to plug and unplug the queue? That code "indirectly" does that by setting a flag, called do_ubd, which makes the request function return (it's a residual of 2.4 block layer interface).
Meanwhile, however, merge this patch, which improves things.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> ---
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c index e4fd29a..1202592 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ static inline void ubd_set_bit(__u64 bit #define DRIVER_NAME "uml-blkdev" +/* Can be taken in interrupt context, and is passed to the block layer to lock + * the request queue. Kernel side code knows that. */ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubd_io_lock); static DEFINE_MUTEX(ubd_lock); @@ -497,6 +499,8 @@ static void __ubd_finish(struct request end_request(req, 1); } +/* Callable only from interrupt context - otherwise you need to do + * spin_lock_irq()/spin_lock_irqsave() */ static inline void ubd_finish(struct request *req, int error) { spin_lock(&ubd_io_lock); @@ -504,7 +508,7 @@ static inline void ubd_finish(struct req spin_unlock(&ubd_io_lock); } -/* Called without ubd_io_lock held */ +/* Called without ubd_io_lock held, and only in interrupt context. */ static void ubd_handler(void) { struct io_thread_req req; @@ -525,7 +529,9 @@ static void ubd_handler(void) ubd_finish(rq, req.error); reactivate_fd(thread_fd, UBD_IRQ); + spin_lock(&ubd_io_lock); do_ubd_request(ubd_queue); + spin_unlock(&ubd_io_lock); } static irqreturn_t ubd_intr(int irq, void *dev) Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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