Re: RFC: Boiler plate functions for ida / idr allocation?

[Stefan Richter]

On Jul 15 Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 05:41 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > osd_uld.c::osd_minor_ida is accessed unsafely.
> > Device probe() and remove() methods are not globally serialized.
> 
> Sorry for the delay. Vacation
> 
> Thanks Stefan I'll look into it. I remember I thought about
> it and tested it at the time, but I might be wrong. I'll look
> into it.

Could actually be that there was or even still is some degree of
serialization by the SCSI core in typical usage.  But I think the
general case is nowadays fully concurrent.  E.g.
    echo $name > /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/osd*/{,un}bind
if issued in parallel for different device names.  Though it is probably
borderline impossible to actually hit a concurrent osd_minor_ida access on
purpose.
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