On Thu, 03 Mar 2022, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 03:19:29PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > All workers/users should be halted before any clean-up should take place. > > > > Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +++ > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c > > index bbaff6a5e21b8..d935d2506963f 100644 > > --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c > > +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c > > @@ -693,6 +693,9 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev) > > int i; > > > > for (i = 0; i < dev->nvqs; ++i) { > > + /* Ideally all workers should be stopped prior to clean-up */ > > + WARN_ON(mutex_is_locked(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex)); > > + > > mutex_lock(&dev->vqs[i]->mutex); > > I know nothing about vhost, but this construction and patch looks > strange to me. > > If all workers were stopped, you won't need mutex_lock(). The mutex_lock > here suggests to me that workers can still run here. The suggestion for this patch came from the maintainer. Please see the conversation here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220302082021-mutt-send-email-mst@xxxxxxxxxx/ -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Principal Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization