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From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
To: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/pci: Rework__zpci_event_availability() to remove conditional locking
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:43:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805124331.76476C3a-hca@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b65164f7442fec896c76e0a39a8d9a43f98b721.camel@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 01:32:10PM +0200, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-08-03 at 16:29 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > Clang's compiler based static context analysis does not work with locks
> > that are conditionally taken like in __zpci_event_availability():
> > 
> > arch/s390/pci/pci_event.c:402:10: warning: mutex 'get_zdev_by_fid(ccdf->fid).state_lock'
> >   is not held on every path through here [-Wthread-safety-analysis]
> > 
> > Given that code which takes locks conditionally can be considered
> > suboptimal rework __zpci_event_availability() to get rid of this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/s390/pci/pci_event.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> >  1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

...

> Personally I think I'd put the 0x0306 and each of the two switches in
> helper functions to improve readability as this is getting awfully
> long. Maybe something like zpci_event_avail_any_device() (0x0306),
> zpci_event_avail_new_device() and zpci_event_avail_existing_device().
> 
> If you prefer and since I'm doing a follow up for the missing locking
> in zpci_reserved_devices() I can also do that in a separate patch. Also
> just to clarify Sashiko is right in that the missing locking is a pre-
> existing issue as the state_lock was already not taken in that case,
> it's just more obvious now.
> 
> Either way, functionality looks good to me so feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>

Thanks, I'll address the two nits for patch 1 and 2, and will send a
new version. However I prefer if you do additional code refactoring
with addon patches, so the result looks exactly like you want it.
Otherwise we will go back and forth :)

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-03 14:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] s390/pci: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS Heiko Carstens
2026-08-03 14:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] s390/pci: Rework __zpci_event_error() to remove conditional locking Heiko Carstens
2026-08-03 16:40   ` Niklas Schnelle
2026-08-03 14:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/pci: Rework__zpci_event_availability() " Heiko Carstens
2026-08-05 11:32   ` Niklas Schnelle
2026-08-05 12:43     ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2026-08-03 14:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] s390/pci: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS Heiko Carstens
2026-08-05 13:22   ` Niklas Schnelle
2026-08-03 14:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Niklas Schnelle

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