Tang Junhui--

Thanks for noticing this issue.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:55 AM, Coly Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017/10/31 下午4:14, [email protected] wrote:
>> From: Tang Junhui <[email protected]>
>>
>> Currently, when a cached device detaching from cache, writeback thread is 
>> not stopped,
>> and writeback_rate_update work is not canceled. For example, after bellow 
>> command:
>> echo 1 >/sys/block/sdb/bcache/detach
>> you can still see the writeback thread. Then you attach the device to the 
>> cache again,
>> bcache will create another writeback thread, for example, after bellow 
>> command:
>> echo  ba0fb5cd-658a-4533-9806-6ce166d883b9 > /sys/block/sdb/bcache/attach
>> then you will see 2 writeback threads.
>> This patch stops writeback thread and cancels writeback_rate_update work 
>> when cached
>> device detaching from cache.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui <[email protected]>
>
> If the change can be inside bch_register_lock, it would (just) be more
> comfortable. The code is correct, because attach/detach sysfs is created
> after writeback_thread created and writeback_rate_update worker
> initialized, even these resources are initialized within
> bch_register_lock and released out of bch)register_lock in your patch,
> there won't be any race. It's OK to me.
>

I think I agree with Coly that I'd prefer it to be moved down into the
register lock, as I think that will be safer with any future changes.
Are you willing to adjust it this way?

Thanks,

Mike

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