On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:45:56PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Running a queue must continue after it has been marked dying until > it has been marked dead. So the function blk_run_queue_async() must > not schedule delayed work after blk_cleanup_queue() has marked a queue > dead. Hence add a test for that queue state in blk_run_queue_async() > and make sure that queue_unplugged() invokes that function with the > queue lock held. This avoids that the queue state can change after > it has been tested and before mod_delayed_work() is invoked. Drop > the queue dying test in queue_unplugged() since it is now > superfluous: __blk_run_queue() already tests whether or not the > queue is dead. > > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> But, some nits. > @@ -219,12 +219,13 @@ static void blk_delay_work(struct work_struct *work) > * Description: > * Sometimes queueing needs to be postponed for a little while, to allow > * resources to come back. This function will make sure that queueing is > - * restarted around the specified time. > + * restarted around the specified time. Queue lock must be held. > */ Comment is fine but lockdep_assert_held() is way more effective. > void blk_delay_queue(struct request_queue *q, unsigned long msecs) > { > - queue_delayed_work(kblockd_workqueue, &q->delay_work, > - msecs_to_jiffies(msecs)); > + if (likely(!blk_queue_dead(q))) > + queue_delayed_work(kblockd_workqueue, &q->delay_work, > + msecs_to_jiffies(msecs)); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_delay_queue); > > @@ -334,11 +335,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blk_run_queue); > * > * Description: > * Tells kblockd to perform the equivalent of @blk_run_queue on behalf > - * of us. > + * of us. The caller must hold the queue lock. > */ Ditto. > void blk_run_queue_async(struct request_queue *q) > { > - if (likely(!blk_queue_stopped(q))) > + if (likely(!blk_queue_stopped(q) && !blk_queue_dead(q))) > mod_delayed_work(kblockd_workqueue, &q->delay_work, 0); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_run_queue_async); Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html