From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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<nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] block: export blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part()
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 11:27:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150408152748.GJ14217@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150408150325.GJ5029@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:03:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:50:56PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * This is an exported API for the block driver, and will not
> > > + * acquire bd_mutex, leaving it up to the caller to handle
> > > + * any necessary locking.
> >
> > Actually, the function is introduced and should be used in case
> > that bd_mutex has been held already, such as clearing fd in
> > loop release().
> >
> > > + */
> > > +int __blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
> > > {
> > > struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
> > >
>
> lockdep_assert_held(&bdev->bd_mutex);
>
> is an excellent means of avoiding that comment and verifying its
> actually true :-)
Ah, yes, that was actually suggested by Christoph as well, I was too hasty
shoving something back out the door on multiple counts.
> > > + */
> > > +int blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
> > > +{
> > > + int res;
> > > +
> > > if (!mutex_trylock(&bdev->bd_mutex))
> > > return -EBUSY;
>
> Is that really needed? It seems rather poor form.
It goes away later in the series and gets converted to a straight
mutex_lock().
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-08 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-05 7:24 [PATCH 0/6] block: reread partitions changes and fix for loop Ming Lei
2015-04-05 7:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] block: export blkdev_reread_part() Ming Lei
2015-04-05 16:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-05 16:40 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-06 13:42 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-06 13:48 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-07 2:43 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-06 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-07 2:11 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-05 7:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] block: loop: don't hold lo_ctl_mutex in lo_open Ming Lei
2015-04-05 16:28 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-06 14:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-05 7:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] block: loop: fix another reread part failure Ming Lei
2015-04-05 7:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] block: nbd: convert to blkdev_reread_part() Ming Lei
2015-04-05 7:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] block: dasd_genhd: convert to blkdev_reread_part Ming Lei
2015-04-06 13:46 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-06 13:51 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-07 1:59 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-07 0:47 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-05 7:24 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in __blkdev_reread_part() Ming Lei
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 0/7] block: reread partitions improvements Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] block: export blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part() Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 14:50 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-08 15:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-08 15:27 ` Jarod Wilson [this message]
2015-04-08 15:28 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 2/7] block: loop: don't hold lo_ctl_mutex in lo_open Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:50 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-08 13:40 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 14:00 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 14:20 ` Ming Lei
2015-04-08 15:28 ` Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 3/7] block: loop: fix another reread part failure Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] block: nbd: convert to blkdev_reread_part() Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 5/7] block: dasd_genhd: convert to blkdev_reread_part Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 6/7] block: replace trylock with mutex_lock in blkdev_reread_part() Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08 6:23 ` [PATCH 7/7] s390/block/dasd: remove obsolete while -EBUSY loop Jarod Wilson
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