Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:58:29 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/14] staging: lustre: llog: change lgh_hdr_lock to mutex |
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:47:13PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > From: wang di <di.wang@intel.com> > > Change lgh_hdr_lock from spinlock to mutex because if > the llog object is a remote object it can be stalled > while being fetched.
but this lock is never even used! Why have it at all?
> > Signed-off-by: wang di <di.wang@intel.com> > Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-6602 > Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/15274 > Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl@yahoo.com> > Reviewed-by: Lai Siyao <lai.siyao@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> > --- > drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h | 2 +- > drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h > index 35e37eb..33f56ff 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h > +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h > @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ struct llog_operations { > /* In-memory descriptor for a log object or log catalog */ > struct llog_handle { > struct rw_semaphore lgh_lock; > - spinlock_t lgh_hdr_lock; /* protect lgh_hdr data */ > + struct mutex lgh_hdr_mutex; /* protect lgh_hdr data */ > struct llog_logid lgh_id; /* id of this log */ > struct llog_log_hdr *lgh_hdr; > size_t lgh_hdr_size; > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c > index 736ea10..83c5b62 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c > @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static struct llog_handle *llog_alloc_handle(void) > return NULL; > > init_rwsem(&loghandle->lgh_lock); > - spin_lock_init(&loghandle->lgh_hdr_lock); > + mutex_init(&loghandle->lgh_hdr_mutex);
Can't we delete it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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