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From: Coly Li <i@coly.li>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>,
	linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bcache: use llist_for_each_entry_safe() in __closure_wake_up()
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:46:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d5dbd25-e1f3-9dc1-1124-26ba9bd7d8c1@coly.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90e74638-c396-a04f-da5c-72ae387f677d@kernel.dk>

On 2017/9/28 上午4:52, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 09/27/2017 10:48 PM, Michael Lyle wrote:
>> Jens--
>>
>> I think it's a race condition-- the individual closures remain valid.
>> It's just that the list element has different meanings-- it's either a
>> list actively being used to wake, or a linkage on one of several lists
>> that is being used to await wake.  If a closure goes back to wait very
>> quickly after being woken, it can end up connecting its new wait-list
>> with the being-woken list.
> 
> Reading it a second time, looks like you are right. OK, then let's just
> queue it up as-is, I'll add the Fixes line this time.
> 
Hi Jens,

Copied, next time for similar situation, Fixes will be there.

Thanks for doing this.

-- 
Coly Li

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-28  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-26  9:54 [PATCH 0/1] bcache fix for 4.14-rc4 Coly Li
2017-09-26  9:54 ` [PATCH 1/1] bcache: use llist_for_each_entry_safe() in __closure_wake_up() Coly Li
2017-09-27 19:16   ` Coly Li
2017-09-27 20:27     ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:48       ` Michael Lyle
2017-09-27 20:52         ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-28  0:46           ` Coly Li [this message]
2017-09-27 20:29   ` Jens Axboe

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