Re: [PATCH] uas: replace WARN_ON_ONCE() with assert_spin_locked().

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 08/11/2014 08:19 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:29:26PM +0530, Sanjeev Sharma wrote:
>> spin_is_locked() always return false in uniprocessor configuration and therefore it
>> would be advise to repalce with assert_spin_locked().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Sharma <Sanjeev_Sharma@mentor.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/usb/storage/uas.c | 8 ++++----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/uas.c b/drivers/usb/storage/uas.c
>> index 3f42785..8e5877d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/uas.c
>> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/uas.c
>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static void uas_mark_cmd_dead(struct uas_dev_info *devinfo,
>>  	struct scsi_cmnd *cmnd = container_of(scp, struct scsi_cmnd, SCp);
>>  
>>  	uas_log_cmd_state(cmnd, caller);
>> -	WARN_ON_ONCE(!spin_is_locked(&devinfo->lock));
>> +	assert_spin_locked(&devinfo->lock);
> 
> Seems to me that replacing WARN_ON_ONCE (which may be annoying but only
> creates a traceback, and only once) with assert_spin_locked (which
> crashes the kernel) is a bit drastic.

I can see your point, but so far these paranoia checks have never triggered,
and having them trigger _always_ one some uni-processor (which is the reason
for this patch) to me seems the worse problem of the 2.

Ideally we would have a warn_spin_not_locked or such ...

Regards,

Hans