[PATCH] uml ubd driver: ubd_io_lock usage fixup

Add some comments about requirements for ubd_io_lock and expand its use.

When an irq signals that the "controller" (i.e.  another thread on the host,
which does the actual requests and is the only one blocked on I/O on the host)
has done some work, we call again the request function ourselves
(do_ubd_request).

We now do that with ubd_io_lock held - that's useful to protect against
concurrent calls to elv_next_request and so on.

XXX: Maybe we shouldn't call at all the request function.  Input needed on
this.  Are we supposed to plug and unplug the queue?  That code "indirectly"
does that by setting a flag, called do_ubd, which makes the request function
return (it's a residual of 2.4 block layer interface).

Meanwhile, however, merge this patch, which improves things.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
index a3061ae..6cd8988 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ static inline void ubd_set_bit(__u64 bit, unsigned char *data)
 
 #define DRIVER_NAME "uml-blkdev"
 
+/* Can be taken in interrupt context, and is passed to the block layer to lock
+ * the request queue. Kernel side code knows that. */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubd_io_lock);
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(ubd_lock);
@@ -497,6 +499,8 @@ static void __ubd_finish(struct request *req, int error)
 	end_request(req, 1);
 }
 
+/* Callable only from interrupt context - otherwise you need to do
+ * spin_lock_irq()/spin_lock_irqsave() */
 static inline void ubd_finish(struct request *req, int error)
 {
  	spin_lock(&ubd_io_lock);
@@ -504,7 +508,7 @@ static inline void ubd_finish(struct request *req, int error)
 	spin_unlock(&ubd_io_lock);
 }
 
-/* Called without ubd_io_lock held */
+/* Called without ubd_io_lock held, and only in interrupt context. */
 static void ubd_handler(void)
 {
 	struct io_thread_req req;
@@ -525,7 +529,9 @@ static void ubd_handler(void)
 
 	ubd_finish(rq, req.error);
 	reactivate_fd(thread_fd, UBD_IRQ);	
+	spin_lock(&ubd_io_lock);
 	do_ubd_request(ubd_queue);
+	spin_unlock(&ubd_io_lock);
 }
 
 static irqreturn_t ubd_intr(int irq, void *dev)