Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] blk-mq: Unregister debugfs attributes earlier

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 05:24:13PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 10:17 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 05:12:05PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 09:55 -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 04:40:21PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > > > @@ -566,6 +566,11 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(struct request_queue *q)
> > > > >  	spin_lock_irq(lock);
> > > > >  	if (!q->mq_ops)
> > > > >  		__blk_drain_queue(q, true);
> > > > > +	spin_unlock_irq(lock);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_mq(q);
> > > > > +
> > > > > +	spin_lock_irq(lock);
> > > > >  	queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD, q);
> > > > >  	spin_unlock_irq(lock);
> > > > 
> > > > Do we actually have to hold the queue lock when we set QUEUE_FLAG_DEAD?
> > > 
> > > It's way easier to keep that spin_lock()/spin_unlock() pair than to analyze
> > > the block driver core and all block drivers to see whether or not any
> > > concurrent queue flag changes could occur.
> > 
> > Ah, I didn't realize that queue_flag_set() did a non-atomic set. I'm
> > wondering if anything bad could happen if something raced between when
> > we drop the lock and regrab it. Maybe just move the
> > blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_mq() before we grab the lock the first time
> > instead?
> 
> That would have the disadvantage that debugfs attributes would be unregistered
> before __blk_drain_queue() is called and hence that these debugfs attributes
> would not be available to debug hangs in queue draining for traditional block
> layer queues ...

True, this is probably fine, then.



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