> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:00 PM
> To: Saxena, Sumit
> Cc: Wei Yongjun; DL-MegaRAID Linux; [email protected];
> [email protected]; [email protected]; linux-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] megaraid: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
>
> On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 12:16 +0000, Saxena, Sumit wrote:
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Wei Yongjun [mailto:[email protected]]
> > >Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 8:38 AM
> > >To: DL-MegaRAID Linux; [email protected];
> > >[email protected]; [email protected]
> > >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > >Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] megaraid: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
> > >
> > >From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
> > >
> > >A spin lock is taken here so we should use GFP_ATOMIC.
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
> > >---
> > > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > >diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
> > >b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
> > >index a706927..99fa5d3 100644
> > >--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
> > >+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
> > >@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ mraid_mm_attach_buf(mraid_mmadp_t *adp,
> uioc_t
> > >*kioc, int xferlen)
> > >
> > > kioc->pool_index = right_pool;
> > > kioc->free_buf = 1;
> > >- kioc->buf_vaddr = pci_pool_alloc(pool->handle, GFP_KERNEL,
> > >+ kioc->buf_vaddr = pci_pool_alloc(pool->handle,
> > >GFP_ATOMIC,
> > > &kioc->buf_paddr);
> > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
> > >
> > >
> > Acked-by: Sumit Saxena <[email protected]>
>
> This doesn't look like the right fix to me. What is the function of
> pool->lock around this code region? The only data you use from the pool
> is pool->handle which is set up at init time ... there's no need to use a
> lock to
> read a piece of data which is effectively constant, so just drop the lock.
Just trying to understand why pool->lock was used here.
Looks like this code may require synchronization using pool->lock while
modifying anything in kioc.
Below code is part of "mraid_mm_dealloc_kioc".. and here also pool->lock is
used before accessing
Kioc->free_buf variable.
/* This routine may be called in non-isr context also */
spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
/*
* While attaching the dma buffer, if we didn't get the
* required buffer from the pool, we would have allocated
* it at the run time and set the free_buf flag. We must
* free that buffer. Otherwise, just mark that the buffer is
* not in use
*/
if (kioc->free_buf == 1)
pci_pool_free(pool->handle, kioc->buf_vaddr,
kioc->buf_paddr);
else
pool->in_use = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
This code is not actively change now by LSI, so doing too much of experiment
may break something.
Considering pool->lock usage as a valid (As you suggested it may be possible
candidate for optimization.),
do you consider including change proposed in this patch ?
` Kashyap
>
> James
>
>
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