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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
	Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] loop: reduce the loop_ctl_mutex scope
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:36:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210901053653.GA14913@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210830071350.GB2498@lst.de>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 09:13:50AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Tetsuo,
> 
> this generally looks fine to me.  The only issue is that I remember is
> that cmpxchg did historically not work on bool on all architectures.
> I'm not sure if this has been fixed since.

Looks like that still is an issue based on the buildbot reports on
linux-kernel.  I'd suggest to resend with idr_visible as an int.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-01  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 16:03 [PATCH] loop: replace loop_ctl_mutex with loop_idr_spinlock Tetsuo Handa
2021-08-27 18:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-28  1:10   ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-08-28  2:22     ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-08-28  7:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-28 13:50       ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-08-29  1:22         ` [PATCH v2] loop: reduce the loop_ctl_mutex scope Tetsuo Handa
2021-08-29 13:47           ` [PATCH v3] " Tetsuo Handa
2021-08-30  7:13             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-01  5:36               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-09-01  5:47                 ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-09-01  6:10             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-02  0:07               ` [PATCH v3 (repost)] " Tetsuo Handa
2021-09-04  4:16             ` [PATCH v3] " Jens Axboe

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