Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262783AbVBDIj3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:39:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263278AbVBDIj2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:39:28 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:13448 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261210AbVBDIjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 03:39:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:39:11 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Tejun Heo Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 11/29] ide: add ide_drive_t.sleeping Message-ID: <20050204083910.GB7299@suse.de> References: <20050202024017.GA621@htj.dyndns.org> <20050202025448.GL621@htj.dyndns.org> <58cb370e05020216476a8f403c@mail.gmail.com> <20050203113710.GV5710@suse.de> <58cb370e05020305304e5d504@mail.gmail.com> <20050203133228.GA2816@suse.de> <58cb370e05020305354cbb16ee@mail.gmail.com> <4202A39E.8020004@home-tj.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4202A39E.8020004@home-tj.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1967 Lines: 50 On Fri, Feb 04 2005, Tejun Heo wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:32:29 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Feb 03 2005, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:37:10 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>> > >>>>On Thu, Feb 03 2005, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:54:48 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>>>11_ide_drive_sleeping_fix.patch > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> ide_drive_t.sleeping field added. 0 in sleep field used to > >>>>>>> indicate inactive sleeping but because 0 is a valid jiffy > >>>>>>> value, though slim, there's a chance that something can go > >>>>>>> weird. And while at it, explicit jiffy comparisons are > >>>>>>> converted to use time_{after|before} macros. > >>>>> > >>>>>Same question as for "add ide_hwgroup_t.polling" patch. > >>>>>AFAICS drive->sleep is either '0' or 'timeout + jiffies' (always > 0) > >>>> > >>>>Hmm, what if jiffies + timeout == 0? > >>> > >>>Hm, jiffies is unsigned and timeout is always > 0 > >>>but this is still possible if jiffies + timeout wraps, right? > >> > >>Precisely, if jiffies is exactly 'timeout' away from wrapping to 0 it > >>could happen. So I think the fix looks sane. > > > > > >agreed > > Actually, jiffies is initialized to INITIAL_JIFFIES which is defined in > such a way that it overflows after 5 min after boot to help finding bugs > related to jiffies wrap. So, the chance of something weird happening in > the bugs fixed in patches 11 and 12 isn't that exteremely slim. :-) And repeat after 49 days, sure. But the odds of it triggering are still extremely slim :) -- Jens Axboe - 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/