[lustre-devel] [PATCH 12/14] staging: lustre: llog: change lgh_hdr_lock to mutex
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Feb 24 08:58:29 PST 2017
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:47:13PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> From: wang di <di.wang at intel.com>
>
> Change lgh_hdr_lock from spinlock to mutex because if
> the llog object is a remote object it can be stalled
> while being fetched.
but this lock is never even used! Why have it at all?
>
> Signed-off-by: wang di <di.wang at intel.com>
> Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-6602
> Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/15274
> Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl at yahoo.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lai Siyao <lai.siyao at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons at infradead.org>
> ---
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h
> index 35e37eb..33f56ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre_log.h
> @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ struct llog_operations {
> /* In-memory descriptor for a log object or log catalog */
> struct llog_handle {
> struct rw_semaphore lgh_lock;
> - spinlock_t lgh_hdr_lock; /* protect lgh_hdr data */
> + struct mutex lgh_hdr_mutex; /* protect lgh_hdr data */
> struct llog_logid lgh_id; /* id of this log */
> struct llog_log_hdr *lgh_hdr;
> size_t lgh_hdr_size;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c
> index 736ea10..83c5b62 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static struct llog_handle *llog_alloc_handle(void)
> return NULL;
>
> init_rwsem(&loghandle->lgh_lock);
> - spin_lock_init(&loghandle->lgh_hdr_lock);
> + mutex_init(&loghandle->lgh_hdr_mutex);
Can't we delete it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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