Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2017-08-18

Re: [PATCH v3] blktrace: Fix potentail deadlock between delete & sysfs ops

From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Date: 2017-08-18 19:55:16
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On 08/18/2017 02:07 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 13:54 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
quoted
Instead, a global blktrace
mutex will be used to serialize the read/write of the blktrace sysfs
attributes.
Hello Waiman,

Using a mutex to serialize code is wrong. What is needed is exact
documentation of what data structures and/or member variables are
protected by bdev->bd_mutex and by blktrace_mutex.
Yes, I missed the blk_trace_ioctl(). I should have modified it to use
blktrace_mutex as well.
Also, please spell "potential" correctly in the subject of this patch.
Will do.

Thanks,
Longman
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