linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:56:28 +0800
From:	Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full()

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 15:50 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > The patch is fairly wordwrapped - please fix up your email client.
> >
> > More seriously, it does not apply to linux-next due to some fairly
> > significant changes which have been sitting in Dan's tree since May.
> > What's going on?
> >
> 
> Those changes missed the 3.5 merge window, but now that they have
> Arjan's ack they should head upstream via James for 3.6.  Right now
> they are on his pending [1] branch.
> 
> As far as the comment:
> 
> > It seems async_synchronize_full() wants to synchronize all entries in
> > all running lists(domains), so maybe we could just check the entry_count
> > to know whether all works are finished.
> 
> ...at first glance this is what the new async patches achieve.
> async_synchronize_full should now sync work across all domains, but if
> you can reproduce this bug it would be nice to confirm that the
> pending changes fix it.
> 

I have tested your pending patches, they fix the problem here.

But with ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE added for the domains defined on the
stack, I think we lack a function that could wait for all the works in
all domains (however, maybe actually we don't need such an interface).

Also, I think it's not good to exclude them from
async_synchronize_full() just because they are defined on the stack. 

> --
> Dan
> 
> [1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pending
> 


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