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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>, <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Boiler plate functions for ida / idr allocation?
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:35:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110715233522.66fd988f@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E208302.9020908@panasas.com>

On Jul 15 Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 05:41 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > osd_uld.c::osd_minor_ida is accessed unsafely.
> > Device probe() and remove() methods are not globally serialized.
> 
> Sorry for the delay. Vacation
> 
> Thanks Stefan I'll look into it. I remember I thought about
> it and tested it at the time, but I might be wrong. I'll look
> into it.

Could actually be that there was or even still is some degree of
serialization by the SCSI core in typical usage.  But I think the
general case is nowadays fully concurrent.  E.g.
    echo $name > /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/osd*/{,un}bind
if issued in parallel for different device names.  Though it is probably
borderline impossible to actually hit a concurrent osd_minor_ida access on
purpose.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==-== -=== -====
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-13  9:44 RFC: Boiler plate functions for ida / idr allocation? Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-13 12:41 ` Stefan Richter
2011-07-15 18:12   ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-07-15 21:35     ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2011-07-13 13:14 ` Stefan Richter
2011-07-13 13:17   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-13 13:31 ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-13 13:48   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-21  6:50     ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-21  7:37     ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-21  8:19       ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-21  8:29         ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-21  8:35         ` Tejun Heo
2011-07-22 11:13           ` Rusty Russell
2011-07-22 16:43             ` Jonathan Cameron

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