linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] target: Convert se_node_acl->device

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Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 09:41:02 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...erainc.com>,
	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] target: Convert se_node_acl->device_list[] to
	RCU hlist

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:17:24AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 18:51 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:46:11AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > Updated to use a mirror lun->lun_rtpi, with the assignment from sep_rtpi
> > > occuring in core_dev_export() code.
> > 
> > From looking at your current tree I suspect freeing the se_port structure
> > using kfree_rcu might be a better idea.  Together with dropping the references
> > to the se_device from call_rcu context this basically means all pointers
> > in struct se_lun are rcu protected which is much safer if you want
> > to access struct se_lun under rcu protection, as this avoids having to
> > deal with special cases.  Additionally that basically allows you to
> > replace lun_sep_lock with rcu_read_lock for anything remotely like
> > a fast path.
> 
> Here's a first pass at this along with kref + completion conversion for
> the special case PR ALL_TGT_PT=1 pointer dereference.

Btw, I started hacking up a patch to merge se_port and t10_alua_tg_pt_gp_member
in se_lun, which seems even better as it closes all kinds of other
races.  Can you keep this one back for now, I'll send out that patch
ASAP after finishing some testing.
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