[PATCH 24/70] sunrpc: clarify comments on rpc_make_runnable

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Tue Jun 04 2013 - 10:20:22 EST


3.5.7.14 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 506026c3ec270e18402f0c9d33fee37482c23861 upstream.

rpc_make_runnable is not generally called with the queue lock held, unless
it's waking up a task that has been sitting on a waitqueue. This is safe
when the task has not entered the FSM yet, but the comments don't really
spell this out.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sunrpc/sched.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index 72d89e1..38cca32 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -302,8 +302,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__rpc_wait_for_completion_task);
/*
* Make an RPC task runnable.
*
- * Note: If the task is ASYNC, this must be called with
- * the spinlock held to protect the wait queue operation.
+ * Note: If the task is ASYNC, and is being made runnable after sitting on an
+ * rpc_wait_queue, this must be called with the queue spinlock held to protect
+ * the wait queue operation.
*/
static void rpc_make_runnable(struct rpc_task *task)
{
--
1.8.1.2

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