Re: Race in bl_resolve_deviceid?

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Doesn't that call to 'set_current_state()' need to come before the
> rpc_queue_upcall() if you want the wait for the downcall to be
> race-free? It looks to me as if the right thing to do here is to
> replace the above with a prepare_to_wait()/finish_wait() pair...

After the trivial switch to prepare_to_wait()/finish_wait() the
thread asking for the deviceid never gets woken.  I'll need more
time to understand all the code around the rpc_pipefs upcalls.
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