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SubjectRe: [PATCH 21/22] fix: flush workqueue on put_ioctx
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:30:30PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> The patchset contains modifications and fixes to the AIO core
> to support the full retry model, an implementation of AIO
> support for buffered filesystem AIO reads and O_SYNC writes
> (the latter courtesy O_SYNC speedup changes from Andrew Morton),
> an implementation of AIO reads and writes to pipes (from
> Chris Mason) and AIO poll (again from Chris Mason).
>
> Full retry infrastructure and fixes
> [1] aio-retry.patch
> [2] 4g4g-aio-hang-fix.patch
> [3] aio-retry-elevated-refcount.patch
> [4] aio-splice-runlist.patch
>
> FS AIO read
> [5] aio-wait-page.patch
> [6] aio-fs_read.patch
> [7] aio-upfront-readahead.patch
>
> AIO for pipes
> [8] aio-cancel-fix.patch
> [9] aio-read-immediate.patch
> [10] aio-pipe.patch
> [11] aio-context-switch.patch
>
> Concurrent O_SYNC write speedups using radix-tree walks
> [12] writepages-range.patch
> [13] fix-writeback-range.patch
> [14] fix-writepages-range.patch
> [15] fdatawrite-range.patch
> [16] O_SYNC-speedup.patch
>
> AIO O_SYNC write
> [17] aio-wait_on_page_writeback_range.patch
> [18] aio-O_SYNC.patch
> [19] O_SYNC-write-fix.patch
>
> AIO poll
> [20] aio-poll.patch
>
> Infrastructure fixes
> [21] aio-putioctx-flushworkqueue.patch

--
Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India
------------------------------------------------------

From: Chris Mason

While testing fsaio here, I hit an oops in kick_iocb because iocb->mm
was null. This was right as the program was exiting.

With the patch below, I wasn't able to reproduce, it makes sure we flush
the workqueue every time __put_ioctx gets called.


aio.c | 6 +-----
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- aio/fs/aio.c 2004-06-21 11:09:50.143627384 -0700
+++ aio-putioctx-flushworkqueue/fs/aio.c 2004-06-21 11:12:55.359470296 -0700
@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ void fastcall __put_ioctx(struct kioctx
if (unlikely(ctx->reqs_active))
BUG();

+ flush_workqueue(aio_wq);
aio_free_ring(ctx);
mmdrop(ctx->mm);
ctx->mm = NULL;
@@ -1205,11 +1206,6 @@ static void io_destroy(struct kioctx *io

aio_cancel_all(ioctx);
wait_for_all_aios(ioctx);
- /*
- * this is an overkill, but ensures we don't leave
- * the ctx on the aio_wq
- */
- flush_workqueue(aio_wq);
put_ioctx(ioctx); /* once for the lookup */
}

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