Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753635AbXINHsB (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:48:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752317AbXINHrm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:47:42 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:24572 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751886AbXINHrk (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:47:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:47:31 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, orgis@agnld.uni-potsdam.de, arekm@maven.pl, ed.lin@promise.com, Andrew Morton , James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race with shared tag queue maps Message-ID: <20070914074731.GV25592@kernel.dk> References: <20070913122652.GK25592@kernel.dk> <20070913152222.GS25592@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1205 Lines: 34 On Thu, Sep 13 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > My bad, I think I added the smp_mb__before_clear_bit() when it was > > __test_and_set_bit() like in the first hunk. > > Ahh, that wouldn't work at all. The "__test_and_set_bit()" thing isn't > atomic at all, and no amount of memory barriers around it would help > (you'd need to use real locking, but at that point the memory barriers are > pointless anyway). Hence the change, it looks like an oversight from when we didn't allow sharing of tag maps (then the queue lock provided adequate protection). > > + /* > > + * Ensure ordering between ->tag_index[tag] clear and tag clear > > + */ > > + smp_mb__after_clear_bit(); > > You still left this one. But never mind - I already edited your original > patch and it's in my tree with both of those things removed. I took at look at the committed patch and it looks fine, thanks Linus. -- 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/