Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751846AbbERHlK (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2015 03:41:10 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:39959 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750720AbbERHlE (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2015 03:41:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 09:41:02 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , target-devel , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Hannes Reinecke , Sagi Grimberg Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] target: Convert se_node_acl->device_list[] to RCU hlist Message-ID: <20150518074102.GA6157@lst.de> References: <1431422736-29125-1-git-send-email-nab@daterainc.com> <1431422736-29125-2-git-send-email-nab@daterainc.com> <20150513063555.GA21770@lst.de> <1431506771.26897.78.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <20150517165142.GA17217@lst.de> <1431933444.24645.7.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1431933444.24645.7.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1508 Lines: 27 On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:17:24AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 18:51 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:46:11AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > > Updated to use a mirror lun->lun_rtpi, with the assignment from sep_rtpi > > > occuring in core_dev_export() code. > > > > From looking at your current tree I suspect freeing the se_port structure > > using kfree_rcu might be a better idea. Together with dropping the references > > to the se_device from call_rcu context this basically means all pointers > > in struct se_lun are rcu protected which is much safer if you want > > to access struct se_lun under rcu protection, as this avoids having to > > deal with special cases. Additionally that basically allows you to > > replace lun_sep_lock with rcu_read_lock for anything remotely like > > a fast path. > > Here's a first pass at this along with kref + completion conversion for > the special case PR ALL_TGT_PT=1 pointer dereference. Btw, I started hacking up a patch to merge se_port and t10_alua_tg_pt_gp_member in se_lun, which seems even better as it closes all kinds of other races. Can you keep this one back for now, I'll send out that patch ASAP after finishing some testing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/