From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Layton , Trond Myklebust , Ben Hutchings , Weng Meiling Subject: [PATCH 3.4 77/99] sunrpc: clarify comments on rpc_make_runnable Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:08:13 -0800 Message-Id: <20140308010614.065965285@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140308010611.468206150@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140308010611.468206150@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jeff Layton commit 506026c3ec270e18402f0c9d33fee37482c23861 upstream. rpc_make_runnable is not generally called with the queue lock held, unless it's waking up a task that has been sitting on a waitqueue. This is safe when the task has not entered the FSM yet, but the comments don't really spell this out. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Weng Meiling Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/sunrpc/sched.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c @@ -302,8 +302,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__rpc_wait_for_complet /* * Make an RPC task runnable. * - * Note: If the task is ASYNC, this must be called with - * the spinlock held to protect the wait queue operation. + * Note: If the task is ASYNC, and is being made runnable after sitting on an + * rpc_wait_queue, this must be called with the queue spinlock held to protect + * the wait queue operation. */ static void rpc_make_runnable(struct rpc_task *task) {