From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Question about life time of block device request queue
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:21:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512202121.GA24843@redhat.com> (raw)
Hi,
I am reading following code and wondering what makes sure that request
queue lock is still valid by the time we call __make_request().
__generic_make_request() {
...
...
if (unlikely(test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, &q->queue_flags)))
goto end_io;
...
...
ret = q->make_request_fn(q, bio); ---> __make_request();
}
__make_request(q)
{
spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
}
blk_cleanup_queue()
{
...
...
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, q);
...
...
}
So when a driver tears down the request queue it should call
blk_cleanup_queue() which will mark queue as DEAD.
In __generic_make_request() once we have checked for dead queue and then
we run bunch of more instructions and then call q->make_request_fn() which
calls __make_request() and in __make_request we take ->queue_lock. What
makes sure that driver did not call blk_cleanup_queue() between DEAD flag
test and taking of spin lock?
Is this a race condition or I am missing something.
Thanks
Vivek
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