From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Snitzer Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] dm: Fix two race conditions related to stopping and starting queues Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:12:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20160901161253.GA11410@redhat.com> References: <18db2396-cd4f-1d52-1ffa-21b9b512eaf4@sandisk.com> <82ff8574-8b73-8ba3-9098-741060f38fca@sandisk.com> <20160901031355.GB4741@redhat.com> <20160901150503.GA11074@redhat.com> <20160901155051.GA11353@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160901155051.GA11353@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "axboe@kernel.dk" , device-mapper development , "hch@lst.de" List-Id: dm-devel.ids On Thu, Sep 01 2016 at 11:50am -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01 2016 at 11:31am -0400, > Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > On 09/01/2016 08:05 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > >I've staged most of your changes (with slight tweaks), see: > > >https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=dm-4.9 > > > > > >Only remaining issue is the queue dying race(s) in dm-multipath. > > > > Thanks Mike! Two minor comments though: > > * In dm_start_queue(), I think that the queue_flag_clear_unlocked() > > call should be converted into queue_flag_clear() and that it should > > be protected by the block layer queue lock. Every call of > > queue_flag_clear_unlocked() after block device initialization has > > finished is wrong if blk_cleanup_queue() can be called concurrently. > > OK, I'll have a look. Please see/test the dm-4.8 and dm-4.9 branches (dm-4.9 being rebased ontop of dm-4.8): https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=dm-4.8 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/log/?h=dm-4.9 Thanks.