Re: [PATCH] libata: prevent HSM state change race between ISR and PIO

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:27:31AM -0600, David Milburn wrote:
>  void ata_sff_flush_pio_task(struct ata_port *ap)
>  {
> +	struct Scsi_Host *host = ap->scsi_host;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
>  	DPRINTK("ENTER\n");
>  
>  	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ap->sff_pio_task);
> +
> +	/* prevent racing with ISR's use of ap->hsm_task_state */

Can we have a more descriptive comment please?  lock, assign, unlock
sequence is pretty unusual, so let's give the full explanation here.

> +	spin_lock_irqsave(host->host_lock, flags);
>  	ap->hsm_task_state = HSM_ST_IDLE;
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(host->host_lock, flags);

Other than that, yeah, nice spotting.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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