Re: AS spin lock bugs

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Thu, Nov 13 2003, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Nov 13 2003, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> >>@@ -959,12 +960,12 @@
> >>	if (!aic)
> >>		return;
> >>
> >>-	spin_lock(&aic->lock);
> >>+	spin_lock_irqsave(&aic->lock, flags);
> >>	if (arq->is_sync == REQ_SYNC) {
> >>		set_bit(AS_TASK_IORUNNING, &aic->state);
> >>		aic->last_end_request = jiffies;
> >>	}
> >>-	spin_unlock(&aic->lock);
> >>+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&aic->lock, flags);
> >>
> >>	put_io_context(arq->io_context);
> >>}
> >>
> >
> >BTW, this looks bogus. Why do you need any locking there?
> >
> 
> To prevent a request completion on another queue on another CPU from
> racing with request insertion: last_end_request is undefined if the
> flag is not set. I guess you could flip the statements and put a
> smp_mb between them. Probably not worth the trouble though.

No better to make it explicit, probably doesn't matter much in
real-life. Thanks for the clarifications.

-- 
Jens Axboe