Re: [PATCH 2/4] mvsas: Deadlocks meet when TMF tasks issue

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James Bottomley wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 14:16 +0800, Ying Chu wrote:
>From 58f754f51fced4a39adcf708319e3de946a0d61a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy <ayan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 23:31:43 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] bug fix: deal lock
TMF task need be issued with Interrupt Disabled, or Deadlock may take place.

Signed-off-by: Ying Chu <jasonchu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <ayan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ke Wei <kewei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c
index 318ec01..cb002ef 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ static int mvs_exec_internal_tmf_task(struct domain_device *dev,
 		task->timer.expires = jiffies + MVS_TASK_TIMEOUT*HZ;
 		add_timer(&task->timer);
- res = mvs_task_exec(task, 1, GFP_KERNEL, NULL, 0, 1, tmf);
+		res = mvs_task_exec(task, 1, GFP_KERNEL, NULL, 1, 1, tmf);

That eliminates the last user of the unlocked case.

Can't we just drop the conditional lock from mvs_task_exec() now
instead?  It will make the code much cleaner.

Agreed...


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