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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@novell.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io context: fix ref counting
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:54:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090731065436.GM12579@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7280F8.1070401@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Fri, Jul 31 2009, Li Zefan wrote:
> Commit d9c7d394a8ebacb60097b192939ae9f15235225e
> ("block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow") mistakenly
> changed atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks) to atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/iocontext.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/iocontext.h b/include/linux/iocontext.h
> index dd05434..4da4a75 100644
> --- a/include/linux/iocontext.h
> +++ b/include/linux/iocontext.h
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static inline struct io_context *ioc_task_link(struct io_context *ioc)
>  	 * a race).
>  	 */
>  	if (ioc && atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&ioc->refcount)) {
> -		atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount);
> +		atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks);
>  		return ioc;
>  	}

Irk, good catch. Applied to immediate upstream branch.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  5:28 [PATCH] io context: fix ref counting Li Zefan
2009-07-31  5:38 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-07-31  6:54 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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