linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtip32xx: avoid using semaphores

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:44:39 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtip32xx: avoid using semaphores

On 12/10/18 2:34 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The "cmd_slot_unal" semaphore is never used in a blocking way
> but only as an atomic counter. Change the code to using
> atomic_dec_if_positive() as a better API.

Looks good to me. We should also convert the return to blk-mq
when we hit failure here to BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE, but that's
a separate patch.

-- 
Jens Axboe