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SubjectRe: cpqarray broken since 2.5.19

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 24 2002, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Jens, the same is in cciss.c.
> > >Please remove locking from blk_stop_queue() (as you suggested) or intrduce
> > >unlocking in request_functions.
> > >
> > Bartek I think the removal is just for reassertion that the
> > locking is the problem. You can't remove it easly from
> > blk_stop_queue() unless you make it mandatory that blk_stop_queue
> > has to be run with the lock already held. Or in other words
> > basically -> Don't use blk_stop_queue() outside of ->request_fn.
>
> Of couse Bart is advocating just making sure that every caller of
> blk_stop_queue() _has_ the queue_lock before calling it, not removing
> the locking there.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe

And I'm also advocating for __blk_start_queue() ideal for usage in
ata_end_request(). And moving spin_lock scope to cover test_and_set_bit()
in blk_start_queue() (for coherency and avoiding spurious calls to
q->request_fn() ).

However IDE_BUSY -> QUEUE_STOPPED_FLAG is braindamaged idea.

--
Bartlomiej

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