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SubjectRe: [PATCH V5 1/3] percpu_ref: add percpu_ref_is_initialized for MD
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 02:26:52PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> MD code uses perpcu-refcount internal to check if this percpu-refcount
> variable is initialized, this way is a hack.
>
> Add percpu_ref_is_initialized for MD so that the hack can be avoided.
>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Tested-by: Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat.com>
> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/md/md.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/percpu-refcount.h | 1 +
> lib/percpu-refcount.c | 6 ++++++
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index de8419b7ae98..241ff618d84e 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -5631,7 +5631,7 @@ static void no_op(struct percpu_ref *r) {}
>
> int mddev_init_writes_pending(struct mddev *mddev)
> {
> - if (mddev->writes_pending.percpu_count_ptr)
> + if (percpu_ref_is_initialized(&mddev->writes_pending))
> return 0;

I'd much rather use a flag in the containing mddev structure then
exposing this new "API". That mddev code is pretty gross to be honest,
we should just initialize the percpu_ref once instea of such a hack.

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