On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 07:21 +0000, Desai, Kashyap wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Bottomley [mailto:james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:00 PM > > To: Saxena, Sumit > > Cc: Wei Yongjun; DL-MegaRAID Linux; simon.pu...@gmail.com; > > jkos...@suse.cz; yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn; linux- > > s...@vger.kernel.org > > 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:weiyj...@gmail.com] > > > >Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 8:38 AM > > > >To: DL-MegaRAID Linux; jbottom...@parallels.com; > > > >simon.pu...@gmail.com; jkos...@suse.cz > > > >Cc: yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > > > >Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] megaraid: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock > > > > > > > >From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn> > > > > > > > >A spin lock is taken here so we should use GFP_ATOMIC. > > > > > > > >Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn> > > > >--- > > > > 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 <sumit.sax...@lsi.com> > > > > 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.
It's possible, but kioc seems to be allocated and freed per thread in the driver (mraid_mm_ioctl) so looks to me to require no locking once you have it allocated because there's a single thread of control per ioctl. > 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); In this code, pool->lock protects variables in the pool (in this case ->in_use) which looks to be correct. It's the chunk further down that appears to have no use for the locking. > 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 ? Well, if you make this change, kmalloc GFP_ATOMIC will fail far more than kmalloc GFP_KERNEL. That failure will be passed straight back to the caller of the ioctl which, presumably, is your raid tool. What will that do? Fail or Retry? If it fails, removing the locking would be best, if it retries, we can probably do the GFP_ATOMIC hack. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
