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  1. 06 Jun, 2008 2 commits
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      md: fix prexor vs sync_request race · e0a115e5
      Dan Williams authored 
      During the initial array synchronization process there is a window between
when a prexor operation is scheduled to a specific stripe and when it
completes for a sync_request to be scheduled to the same stripe.  When
this happens the prexor completes and the stripe is unconditionally marked
"insync", effectively canceling the sync_request for the stripe.  Prior to
2.6.23 this was not a problem because the prexor operation was done under
sh->lock.  The effect in older kernels being that the prexor would still
erroneously mark the stripe "insync", but sync_request would be held off
and re-mark the stripe as "!in_sync".

Change the write completion logic to not mark the stripe "in_sync" if a
prexor was performed.  The effect of the change is to sometimes not set
STRIPE_INSYNC.  The worst this can do is cause the resync to stall waiting
for STRIPE_INSYNC to be set.  If this were happening, then STRIPE_SYNCING
would be set and handle_issuing_new_read_requests would cause all
available blocks to eventually be read, at which point prexor would never
be used on that stripe any more and STRIPE_INSYNC would eventually be set.

echo repair > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action will correct arrays that may
have lost this race.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e0a115e5
    • David Brownell's avatar
      spi: fix refcount-related spidev oops-on-rmmod · b2c8dadd
      David Brownell authored 
      This addresses other oopsing paths in "spidev" by changing how it manages
refcounting.  It decouples the lifecycle of the per-device data from the
class device (not just the spi device):

  - Use class_{create,destroy} not class_{register,unregister}.
  - Use device_{create,destroy} not device_{register,unregister}.
  - Free the per-device data only when TWO conditions are true:
      * Driver is unbound from underlying SPI device, and
      * Device is no longer open (new)

Also, spi_{get,set}_drvdata not dev_{get,set}_drvdata for simpler code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@tglx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b2c8dadd
  3. 05 Jun, 2008 38 commits