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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:19:05 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blktrace: re-write setting q->blk_trace


>The patch itself looks ok, but it doesn't seem to apply to a recent
>kernel tree.  It appears as though it is white-space damaged.  Would you
>mind re-sending it?

Hmm sorry about that. I thought I had based it against that day's tip/master.
Anyway, here is v3 which is against tip/master as of 338e29ba93639138fafb9fb5ba946fd99a512aae.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:13:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH -tip v3] blktrace: re-write setting q->blk_trace

This is really about simplifying the double xchg patterns into
a single cmpxchg, with the same logic. Other than the immediate
cleanup, there are some subtleties this change deals with:

(i) While the load of the old bt is fully ordered wrt everything,
ie:

        old_bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, bt);             [barrier]
        if (old_bt)
	     (void) xchg(&q->blk_trace, old_bt);    [barrier]

blk_trace could still be changed between the xchg and the old_bt
load. Note that this description is merely theoretical and afaict
very small, but doing everything in a single context with cmpxchg
closes this potential race.

(ii) Ordering guarantees are obviously kept with cmpxchg.

(iii) Gets rid of the hacky-by-nature (void)xchg pattern.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
---
v3: rebased ontop of today's -tip.
     minor changelog addition.

  kernel/trace/blktrace.c | 16 +++++-----------
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index 90e72a0..e3a2618 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
		       struct block_device *bdev,
		       struct blk_user_trace_setup *buts)
  {
-	struct blk_trace *old_bt, *bt = NULL;
+	struct blk_trace *bt = NULL;
	struct dentry *dir = NULL;
	int ret;

@@ -519,11 +519,8 @@ int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
	bt->trace_state = Blktrace_setup;

	ret = -EBUSY;
-	old_bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, bt);
-	if (old_bt) {
-		(void) xchg(&q->blk_trace, old_bt);
+	if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
		goto err;
-	}

	if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
		blk_register_tracepoints();
@@ -1481,7 +1478,7 @@ static int blk_trace_remove_queue(struct request_queue *q)
  static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q,
				 struct block_device *bdev)
  {
-	struct blk_trace *old_bt, *bt = NULL;
+	struct blk_trace *bt = NULL;
	int ret = -ENOMEM;

	bt = kzalloc(sizeof(*bt), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1497,12 +1494,9 @@ static int blk_trace_setup_queue(struct request_queue *q,

	blk_trace_setup_lba(bt, bdev);

-	old_bt = xchg(&q->blk_trace, bt);
-	if (old_bt != NULL) {
-		(void)xchg(&q->blk_trace, old_bt);
-		ret = -EBUSY;
+	ret = -EBUSY;
+	if (cmpxchg(&q->blk_trace, NULL, bt))
		goto free_bt;
-	}

	if (atomic_inc_return(&blk_probes_ref) == 1)
		blk_register_tracepoints();
--
2.1.4
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