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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: djbw@fb.com, maciej.patelczyk@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioatdma: fix race between updating ioat->head and IOAT_COMPLETION_PENDING
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:28:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212162802.GQ3789@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130207213832.13721.36522.stgit@djiang5-linux2.ch.intel.com>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:38:32PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> There is a race that can hit during __cleanup() when the ioat->head pointer is
> incremented during descriptor submission. The __cleanup() can clear the
> PENDING flag when it does not see any active descriptors. This causes new
> submitted descriptors to be ignored because the COMPLETION_PENDING flag is
> cleared. This was introduced when code was adapted from ioatdma v1 to ioatdma
> v2. For v2 and v3, IOAT_COMPLETION_PENDING flag will be abandoned and a new
> flag IOAT_CHAN_ACTIVE will be utilized. This flag will also be protected under
> the prep_lock when being modified in order to avoid the race.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Applied, thanks

--
~Vinod

      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-12 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-07 21:38 [PATCH] ioatdma: fix race between updating ioat->head and IOAT_COMPLETION_PENDING Dave Jiang
2013-02-12 16:28 ` Vinod Koul [this message]

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