Re: [PATCH 1/6] SUNRPC: spin svc_rqst initialization to its own function

From: Neil Brown
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 00:53:28 EST


On Saturday January 5, jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Move the initialzation in __svc_create_thread that happens prior to
> thread creation to a new function. Export the function to allow
> services to have better control over the svc_rqst structs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 2 ++
> net/sunrpc/svc.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
> index 8531a70..5f07300 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
> @@ -382,6 +382,8 @@ struct svc_procedure {
> */
> struct svc_serv * svc_create(struct svc_program *, unsigned int,
> void (*shutdown)(struct svc_serv*));
> +struct svc_rqst *svc_prepare_thread(struct svc_serv *serv,
> + struct svc_pool *pool);
> int svc_create_thread(svc_thread_fn, struct svc_serv *);
> void svc_exit_thread(struct svc_rqst *);
> struct svc_serv * svc_create_pooled(struct svc_program *, unsigned int,
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
> index fca17d0..b29ed43 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
> @@ -538,23 +538,14 @@ svc_release_buffer(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
> put_page(rqstp->rq_pages[i]);
> }
>
> -/*
> - * Create a thread in the given pool. Caller must hold BKL.
> - * On a NUMA or SMP machine, with a multi-pool serv, the thread
> - * will be restricted to run on the cpus belonging to the pool.
> - */
> -static int
> -__svc_create_thread(svc_thread_fn func, struct svc_serv *serv,
> - struct svc_pool *pool)
> +struct svc_rqst *
> +svc_prepare_thread(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool)
> {
> struct svc_rqst *rqstp;
> - int error = -ENOMEM;
> - int have_oldmask = 0;
> - cpumask_t oldmask;
>
> rqstp = kzalloc(sizeof(*rqstp), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!rqstp)
> - goto out;
> + goto out_enomem;
>
> init_waitqueue_head(&rqstp->rq_wait);
>
> @@ -570,6 +561,34 @@ __svc_create_thread(svc_thread_fn func, struct svc_serv *serv,
> spin_unlock_bh(&pool->sp_lock);
> rqstp->rq_server = serv;
> rqstp->rq_pool = pool;
> + return rqstp;
> +
> +out_thread:
> + svc_exit_thread(rqstp);

I realise that the bug existed before your change, but calling
svc_exit_thread at this point is not good.
The 'goto out_thread' is *before* "pool->sp_nrthreads++", but
svc_exit_thread does "pool->sp_nrthreads--;". Not good.

As you are playing is this code, do you feel like fixing that error
path??


Otherwise, patch looks good.
Acked-By: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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