From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] SCSI: Asynchronous event notification infrastructure Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:17:07 -0500 Message-ID: <1193674627.3383.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <15624bab8dc0206e384ac8314257a900e60127c1.1193668176.git.jeff@garzik.org> <20071029144208.676251F8168@havoc.gtf.org> <1193673088.3383.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47260546.9090508@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:42689 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754701AbXJ2QRJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:17:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47260546.9090508@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: LKML , Linux-SCSI , akpm@linux-foundation.org On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > This still doesn't solve the fundamental corruption problem: > > sdev->event_work has to contain the work entry until the workqueue has > > finished executing it (which is some unspecified time in the future). > > As soon as you drop the sdev->list_lock, the system thinks > > sdev->event_work is available for reuse. If we fire another event > > before the work queue finished processing the prior event, the queue > > will be corrupted. > > I think you're misunderstanding the workqueue code? You can call > schedule_work(&sdev->event_work) from anywhere, any time you like, as > many times as you like. OK, take me through it slowly then ... I think schedule_work(work) inserts work->entry onto the workqueue list (in workqueue.c:insert_work()). If the event hasn't fired, it will already be on the list, so adding the same entry to a list twice causes a list corruption problem. Plus, unfortunately, the CC/UA events are going to have to carry extra sense data; they're not simply going to be triggers saying something happened. James