On 09/06/2015 08:16 AM, Lee Duncan wrote: > On 09/06/2015 12:34 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote: >> On 9/5/2015 11:44 PM, Lee Duncan wrote: >>> Each Scsi_host instance gets a host number starting >>> at 0, but this was implemented with an atomic integer, >>> and rollover wasn't considered. Another problem with >>> this design is that scsi host numbers used by iscsi >>> are never reused, thereby making rollover more likely. >>> This patch converts Scsi_host instances to use idr >>> to manage their instance numbers and to simplify >>> instance number to pointer lookups. >>> >>> This also means that host instance numbers will be >>> reused, when available. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 59 >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- >>> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c >>> index 8bb173e01084..1127a50e5942 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c >>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c >>> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ >>> #include <linux/transport_class.h> >>> #include <linux/platform_device.h> >>> #include <linux/pm_runtime.h> >>> - >>> +#include <linux/idr.h> >>> #include <scsi/scsi_device.h> >>> #include <scsi/scsi_host.h> >>> #include <scsi/scsi_transport.h> >>> @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ >>> #include "scsi_priv.h" >>> #include "scsi_logging.h" >>> >>> - >>> -static atomic_t scsi_host_next_hn = ATOMIC_INIT(0); /* host_no for >>> next new host */ >>> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(host_index_lock); >>> +static DEFINE_IDR(host_index_idr); >>> >>> >>> static void scsi_host_cls_release(struct device *dev) >>> @@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ static void scsi_host_dev_release(struct device >>> *dev) >>> >>> kfree(shost->shost_data); >>> >>> + spin_lock(&host_index_lock); >>> + idr_remove(&host_index_idr, shost->host_no); >>> + spin_unlock(&host_index_lock); >>> + >> >> Did you change your mind on having host_[get|put]_idx() helpers? > Sagi: I may have answered you incorrectly. Yes, when I switched from using ida routines to using idr, I dropped the helper functions. But I think you are right, the code is cleaner with them present, so I will resubmit. > No. As I said on the description: > >> A separate patch sequence follows which will add helper routines >> for the ida index functions. > > I'll be sending out that patch series today (I hope). > > I *do* believe it would be useful to add some ida helper routines, since > callers of these routines seem mostly to use a uniform calling sequence. > But even so some of the callers do things differently enough so that I > was not comfortable changing them to use the helper routines. > > But the "idr" routines, i.e. the ones that manage both an index *and* a > pointer, which are the ones I'm using in hosts.c, are not called so > uniformly, so helper routines did not seem like a good idea. > -- Lee Duncan SUSE Labs -- 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