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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4][diskdump] x86-64 support
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:23:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040828112324.B8000@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8DC48CE421568Cindou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>; from indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com on Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:48:11PM +0900

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 06:48:11PM +0900, Takao Indoh wrote:
> +/*
> + *  Dump stuff...
> + */
> +#include <linux/diskdump.h>
> +
> +#define MPT_HOST_LOCK(host_lock)		\
> +	if (crashdump_mode()) 			\
> +		spin_lock(host_lock);		\
> +	else					\
> +		spin_lock_irq(host_lock);
> +
> +#define MPT_HOST_UNLOCK(host_lock)		\
> +	if (crashdump_mode())			\
> +		spin_unlock(host_lock);		\
> +	else					\
> +		spin_unlock_irq(host_lock);
> +

Please stop this macro madness.  Why can't you simply use
spin+lock_irqsave?

> +mptscsih_sanity_check(struct scsi_device *sdev)
> +{
> +	MPT_ADAPTER    *ioc;
> +	MPT_SCSI_HOST  *hd;
> +
> +	hd = (MPT_SCSI_HOST *) sdev->host->hostdata;
> +	if (!hd)
> +		return -ENXIO;
> +	ioc = hd->ioc;
> +
> +	/* message frame freeQ is busy */
> +	if (spin_is_locked(&ioc->FreeQlock))
> +		return -EBUSY;

As in the scsi code spin_is_locked checks are bogus and racy.  Only
a spin_trylock would be safe.  hd can't be NULL.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-28 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-28  9:43 [PATCH 0/4][diskdump] x86-64 support Takao Indoh
2004-08-28  9:44 ` [PATCH 1/4][diskdump] " Takao Indoh
2004-08-28  9:45 ` [PATCH 2/4][diskdump] " Takao Indoh
2004-08-28 10:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-28  9:47 ` [PATCH 3/4][diskdump] " Takao Indoh
2004-08-28  9:48 ` [PATCH 4/4][diskdump] " Takao Indoh
2004-08-28 10:23   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-31  9:10     ` Takao Indoh
2004-09-04 11:11       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-04 22:31       ` Lee Revell

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