[PATCH] md: Improve comments about locking situation in raid5 make_request
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@ -1768,6 +1768,14 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio * bi)
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if (likely(conf->expand_progress == MaxSector))
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disks = conf->raid_disks;
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else {
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/* spinlock is needed as expand_progress may be
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* 64bit on a 32bit platform, and so it might be
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* possible to see a half-updated value
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* Ofcourse expand_progress could change after
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* the lock is dropped, so once we get a reference
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* to the stripe that we think it is, we will have
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* to check again.
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*/
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spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
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disks = conf->raid_disks;
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if (logical_sector >= conf->expand_progress)
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@ -1791,7 +1799,12 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio * bi)
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if (sh) {
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if (unlikely(conf->expand_progress != MaxSector)) {
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/* expansion might have moved on while waiting for a
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* stripe, so we much do the range check again.
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* stripe, so we must do the range check again.
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* Expansion could still move past after this
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* test, but as we are holding a reference to
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* 'sh', we know that if that happens,
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* STRIPE_EXPANDING will get set and the expansion
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* won't proceed until we finish with the stripe.
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*/
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int must_retry = 0;
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spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
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