Re: [PATCH] qla2xxx: Fix possible race that could hang kthread_stop()

From: Bandan Das
Date: Thu Jan 27 2011 - 16:33:08 EST



> That's not really the accepted way to fix these race conditions because
> of the double check of kthread_should_stop(); this is
> James
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
> index c194c23..15ce69e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
> @@ -3282,10 +3282,10 @@ qla2x00_do_dpc(void *data)
>
> set_user_nice(current, -20);
>
> + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
> DEBUG3(printk("qla2x00: DPC handler sleeping\n"));
>
> - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> schedule();
> __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>
> @@ -3454,7 +3454,9 @@ qla2x00_do_dpc(void *data)
> qla2x00_do_dpc_all_vps(base_vha);
>
> ha->dpc_active = 0;
> + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> } /* End of while(1) */
> + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>
> DEBUG(printk("scsi(%ld): DPC handler exiting\n", base_vha->host_no));
>
Yes, this looks more clean and will take care of the problem I am hitting.


Bandan
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