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From: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
To: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 08/13] md: set MD_CHANGE_PENDING in a spinlocked region
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:27:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427152753.GB17061@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461722186-11023-1-git-send-email-gqjiang@suse.com>

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 09:56:26PM -0400, Guoqing Jiang wrote:
> Some code waits for a metadata update by:
> 
> 1. flagging that it is needed (MD_CHANGE_DEVS or MD_CHANGE_CLEAN)
> 2. setting MD_CHANGE_PENDING and waking the management thread
> 3. waiting for MD_CHANGE_PENDING to be cleared
> 
> If the first two are done without locking, the code in md_update_sb()
> which checks if it needs to repeat might test if an update is needed
> before step 1, then clear MD_CHANGE_PENDING after step 2, resulting
> in the wait returning early.
> 
> So make sure all places that set MD_CHANGE_PENDING are protected by
> mddev->lock.
> 
> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
> ---
> V3 changes:
> 1. use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore in error funcs and
>    raid10's __make_request

shouldn't other places use spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq? interrupt can occur
after you do spin_lock(), and if it's md_error, we deadlock.

please resend the whole series.

Thanks,
Shaohua

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21  5:58 [PATCH 00/13] The latest patches for md-cluster Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 01/13] md-cluster: change resync lock from asynchronous to synchronous Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  6:20   ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-21  6:55   ` [PATCH V2 " Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 02/13] md-cluser: make resync_finish only called after pers->sync_request Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 03/13] md-cluster: wake up thread to continue recovery Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 04/13] md-cluster: unregister thread if err happened Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 05/13] md-cluster: fix locking when node joins cluster during message broadcast Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 06/13] md-cluster: change array_sectors and update size are not supported Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 07/13] md-cluster: wakeup thread if activated a spare disk Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 08/13] md: set MD_CHANGE_PENDING in a spinlocked region Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  6:26   ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-21  6:58   ` [PATCH V2 " Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-25 17:32     ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-26  3:19       ` Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-27  1:56     ` [PATCH V3 " Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-27 15:27       ` Shaohua Li [this message]
2016-04-28  2:55         ` Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-28  3:58           ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-29  1:26             ` NeilBrown
2016-04-29 18:21               ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 09/13] md-cluster: always setup in-memory bitmap Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  7:00   ` kbuild test robot
2016-04-21  7:00   ` [PATCH] md-cluster: fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings kbuild test robot
2016-04-21  9:10     ` Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-25 17:45   ` [PATCH 09/13] md-cluster: always setup in-memory bitmap Shaohua Li
2016-04-26  3:22     ` Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-27 15:24       ` Shaohua Li
2016-04-28  2:59         ` Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] md-cluster: sync bitmap when node received RESYNCING msg Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 11/13] md-cluster/bitmap: fix wrong calcuation of offset Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 12/13] md-cluster/bitmap: fix wrong page num in bitmap_file_clear_bit and bitmap_file_set_bit Guoqing Jiang
2016-04-21  5:58 ` [PATCH 13/13] md-cluster/bitmap: unplug bitmap to sync dirty pages to disk Guoqing Jiang

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