Hello Jens, As you probably know there is considerable confusion in the block layer core and in block drivers about how to protect queue flag changes against concurrent modifications. Some code protects these changes with the queue lock, other code uses atomic operations and some code does not protect queue flag changes against concurrent changes at all. Hence this patch series that protects all queue flag changes consistently with the queue lock and that removes functions that are not safe in a concurrent context from the public block layer header files. Please consider these patches for kernel v4.17. Note: it may be a good idea to postpone patch 11 until after the kernel v4.17 merge window to avoid merge conflicts. Thanks, Bart. Changes compared to v1: - Restored one test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_POLL_STATS, &q->queue_flags) call to avoid introducing a slowdown in the polling hot path. Bart Van Assche (11): block: Reorder the queue flag manipulation function definitions block: Use the queue_flag_*() functions instead of open-coding these block: Introduce blk_queue_flag_{set,clear,test_and_{set,clear}}() block: Protect queue flag changes with the queue lock mtip32xx: Use the blk_queue_flag_*() functions bcache: Use the blk_queue_flag_{set,clear}() functions iscsi: Use blk_queue_flag_set() target/tcm_loop: Use blk_queue_flag_set() block: Use blk_queue_flag_*() in drivers instead of queue_flag_*() block: Complain if queue_flag_(set|clear)_unlocked() is abused block: Move the queue_flag_*() functions from a public into a private header file block/blk-core.c | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ block/blk-mq.c | 16 ++--- block/blk-settings.c | 6 +- block/blk-stat.c | 6 +- block/blk-sysfs.c | 22 +++---- block/blk-timeout.c | 6 +- block/blk.h | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++ block/bsg-lib.c | 4 +- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c | 4 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 10 ++-- drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 8 +-- drivers/block/nbd.c | 8 +-- drivers/block/null_blk.c | 6 +- drivers/block/rbd.c | 4 +- drivers/block/rsxx/dev.c | 6 +- drivers/block/skd_main.c | 4 +- drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 10 ++-- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 6 +- drivers/ide/ide-disk.c | 4 +- drivers/ide/ide-probe.c | 2 +- drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 2 +- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 6 +- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 16 ++--- drivers/md/md-linear.c | 4 +- drivers/md/md.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid0.c | 4 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 6 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 6 +- drivers/md/raid5.c | 4 +- drivers/mmc/core/queue.c | 8 +-- drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 6 +- drivers/nvdimm/blk.c | 2 +- drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 2 +- drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 4 +- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 4 +- drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/block/dasd.c | 4 +- drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c | 2 +- drivers/s390/block/scm_blk.c | 4 +- drivers/s390/block/xpram.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 8 +-- drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c | 2 +- include/linux/blkdev.h | 76 +++-------------------- 50 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 220 deletions(-) -- 2.16.2