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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] blktrace: re-write setting q->blk_trace

>The patch itself looks ok, but it doesn't seem to apply to a recent
>kernel tree. It appears as though it is white-space damaged. Would you
>mind re-sending it?

Hmm sorry about that. I thought I had based it against that day's tip/master.
Anyway, here is v3 which is against tip/master as of 338e29ba93639138fafb9fb5ba946fd99a512aae.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:13:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH -tip v3] blktrace: re-write setting q->blk_trace

This is really about simplifying the double xchg patterns into
a single cmpxchg, with the same logic. Other than the immediate
cleanup, there are some subtleties this change deals with:

(i) While the load of the old bt is fully ordered wrt everything,
ie:

old_bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, bt); [barrier]
if (old_bt)
(void) xchg(&q->blk_trace, old_bt); [barrier]

blk_trace could still be changed between the xchg and the old_bt
load. Note that this description is merely theoretical and afaict
very small, but doing everything in a single context with cmpxchg
closes this potential race.

(ii) Ordering guarantees are obviously kept with cmpxchg.

(iii) Gets rid of the hacky-by-nature (void)xchg pattern.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
---
v3: rebased ontop of today's -tip.
minor changelog addition.

kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 16 +++++-----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 90e72a0..e3a2618 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
struct block_device *bdev,
struct blk_user_trace_setup *buts)
{
- struct blk_trace *old_bt, *bt = NULL;
+ struct blk_trace *bt = NULL;
struct dentry *dir = NULL;
int ret;

@@ -519,11 +519,8 @@ int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
bt->trace_state = Blktrace_setup;

ret = -EBUSY;
- old_bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, bt);
- if (old_bt) {
- (void) xchg(&q->blk_trace, old_bt);
+ if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
goto err;
- }

if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
blk_register_tracepoints();
@@ -1481,7 +1478,7 @@ static int blk_trace_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q)
static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q,
struct block_device *bdev)
{
- struct blk_trace *old_bt, *bt = NULL;
+ struct blk_trace *bt = NULL;
int ret = -ENOMEM;

bt = kzalloc(sizeof(*bt), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1497,12 +1494,9 @@ static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q,

blk_trace_setup_lba(bt, bdev);

- old_bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, bt);
- if (old_bt != NULL) {
- (void)xchg(&q->blk_trace, old_bt);
- ret = -EBUSY;
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
goto free_bt;
- }

if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
blk_register_tracepoints();
--
2.1.4


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