From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> To: Siddh Raman Pant <code@siddh.me> Cc: christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, corbet@lwn.net, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@kernel.org, rdunlap@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] kernel/watch_queue: Remove wqueue->defunct and use pipe for clear check Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 00:24:31 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <YuzFrzrTnTtUHMn/@sol.localdomain> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20220804144152.468916-1-code@siddh.me> On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 08:11:52PM +0530, Siddh Raman Pant wrote: > static inline bool lock_wqueue(struct watch_queue *wqueue) > { > spin_lock_bh(&wqueue->lock); > - if (unlikely(wqueue->defunct)) { > + if (unlikely(!READ_ONCE(wqueue->pipe))) { > spin_unlock_bh(&wqueue->lock); > return false; > } Why is the READ_ONCE() needed? Doesn't wqueue->lock protect wqueue->pipe? > + /* This pipe will get freed by the caller free_pipe_info(). > + * Removing this reference also prevents new notifications. > + */ This isn't the correct block comment format; it should look like: /* * This pipe will get freed by the caller free_pipe_info(). * Removing this reference also prevents new notifications. */ - Eric
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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> To: Siddh Raman Pant <code@siddh.me> Cc: corbet@lwn.net, rdunlap@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, mchehab@kernel.org, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] kernel/watch_queue: Remove wqueue->defunct and use pipe for clear check Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 00:24:31 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <YuzFrzrTnTtUHMn/@sol.localdomain> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20220804144152.468916-1-code@siddh.me> On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 08:11:52PM +0530, Siddh Raman Pant wrote: > static inline bool lock_wqueue(struct watch_queue *wqueue) > { > spin_lock_bh(&wqueue->lock); > - if (unlikely(wqueue->defunct)) { > + if (unlikely(!READ_ONCE(wqueue->pipe))) { > spin_unlock_bh(&wqueue->lock); > return false; > } Why is the READ_ONCE() needed? Doesn't wqueue->lock protect wqueue->pipe? > + /* This pipe will get freed by the caller free_pipe_info(). > + * Removing this reference also prevents new notifications. > + */ This isn't the correct block comment format; it should look like: /* * This pipe will get freed by the caller free_pipe_info(). * Removing this reference also prevents new notifications. */ - Eric _______________________________________________ Linux-kernel-mentees mailing list Linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-kernel-mentees
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-05 7:24 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2022-08-04 13:30 [PATCH 0/3] kernel/watch_queue: Clean up some code Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-04 13:30 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-04 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/3 v4] kernel/watch_queue: Remove dangling pipe reference while clearing watch_queue Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-04 13:30 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-04 13:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] kernel/watch_queue: Improve struct annotation formatting Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-04 13:30 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-05 7:22 ` Eric Biggers 2022-08-05 7:22 ` Eric Biggers 2022-08-05 9:35 ` Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-05 9:35 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-04 13:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] kernel/watch_queue: Remove wqueue->defunct and use pipe for clear check Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-04 13:30 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-04 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 " Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-04 14:41 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-05 7:24 ` Eric Biggers [this message] 2022-08-05 7:24 ` Eric Biggers 2022-08-05 9:35 ` Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-05 9:35 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-05 18:33 ` Eric Biggers 2022-08-05 18:33 ` Eric Biggers 2022-08-06 7:23 ` Siddh Raman Pant 2022-08-06 7:23 ` Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-05 7:16 ` [PATCH 0/3] kernel/watch_queue: Clean up some code Eric Biggers 2022-08-05 7:16 ` Eric Biggers 2022-08-05 9:35 ` Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees 2022-08-05 9:35 ` Siddh Raman Pant
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