[PATCH 3.8 60/91] Update of blkg_stat and blkg_rwstat may happen in bh context. While u64_stats_fetch_retry is only preempt_disable on 32bit UP system. This is not enough to avoid preemption by bh and may read strange 64 bit value.
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jan 2 17:04:35 UTC 2014
3.8.13.15 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hong Zhiguo <zhiguohong at tencent.com>
commit 2c575026fae6e63771bd2a4c1d407214a8096a89 upstream.
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <zhiguohong at tencent.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
block/blk-cgroup.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
index 2459730..6f33c3f 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
@@ -370,9 +370,9 @@ static inline uint64_t blkg_stat_read(struct blkg_stat *stat)
uint64_t v;
do {
- start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&stat->syncp);
+ start = u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh(&stat->syncp);
v = stat->cnt;
- } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&stat->syncp, start));
+ } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_bh(&stat->syncp, start));
return v;
}
@@ -426,9 +426,9 @@ static inline struct blkg_rwstat blkg_rwstat_read(struct blkg_rwstat *rwstat)
struct blkg_rwstat tmp;
do {
- start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&rwstat->syncp);
+ start = u64_stats_fetch_begin_bh(&rwstat->syncp);
tmp = *rwstat;
- } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&rwstat->syncp, start));
+ } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_bh(&rwstat->syncp, start));
return tmp;
}
--
1.8.3.2
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