From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: block: be more careful about status in __bio_chain_endio
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:32:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b023cf7a-ca86-5516-b441-30bec442dee6@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190612070110.GA11707@infradead.org>
On 6/12/19 9:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:56:42PM -0400, John Dorminy wrote:
>> I believe the second of these might, but is not guaranteed to,
>> preserve the first error observed in a child; I believe if you want to
>> definitely save the first error you need an atomic.
>
> Is there any reason not to simply use a cmpxchg? Yes, it is a
> relatively expensive operation, but once we are chaining bios we are out
> of the super hot path anyway. We do something similar in xfs and iomap
> already.
>
Agree.
Thing is, we need to check if the parent status is NULL, _and_ the
parent status might be modified asynchronously.
So even a READ_ONCE() wouldn't cut it, as it would tell us that the
parent status _was_ NULL, not that the parent status _is_ NULL by the
time we're setting it.
So cmpxchg() is it.
Cheers,
Hannes
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[not found] ` <87eflmpqkb.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
2019-02-22 21:10 ` block: be more careful about status in __bio_chain_endio Mike Snitzer
2019-02-22 22:46 ` Jens Axboe
2019-02-22 23:55 ` Mike Snitzer
2019-02-23 2:02 ` John Dorminy
2019-02-23 2:44 ` Mike Snitzer
2019-02-23 3:10 ` John Dorminy
2019-06-12 2:56 ` John Dorminy
2019-06-12 7:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17 7:32 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
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