[PATCH 17/31] swim: Convert to blocking queue
From: Finn Thain
Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 06:26:57 EST
These drives are slow: completing a request can take hundreds of
milliseconds. Delays are managed by disabling interrupts judiciously and
sleeping opportunistically.
As of commit e3896d77b702 ("swim: convert to blk-mq"), a spinlock is
taken in irq mode as soon as a request is issued. That lock is held for
the duration of the request. Hence the driver sleeps while holding the
lock which is forbidden.
Adopt BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING and remove the spinlock. Use a mutex to serialize
requests from the two request queues. (The chip cannot simultaneously
process requests on both internal and external drive.)
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
Fixes: e3896d77b702 ("swim: convert to blk-mq")
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/swim.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/swim.c b/drivers/block/swim.c
index e2a8c4ba4e39..6f93ebaaffb7 100644
--- a/drivers/block/swim.c
+++ b/drivers/block/swim.c
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ enum head {
struct swim_priv {
struct swim __iomem *base;
- spinlock_t lock;
int floppy_count;
struct floppy_state unit[FD_MAX_UNIT];
};
@@ -537,12 +536,10 @@ static blk_status_t swim_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
const struct blk_mq_queue_data *bd)
{
struct floppy_state *fs = hctx->queue->queuedata;
- struct swim_priv *swd = fs->swd;
struct request *req = bd->rq;
blk_status_t err;
- if (!spin_trylock_irq(&swd->lock))
- return BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE;
+ mutex_lock(&swim_mutex);
blk_mq_start_request(req);
@@ -560,7 +557,7 @@ static blk_status_t swim_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
err = BLK_STS_OK;
out:
- spin_unlock_irq(&swd->lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&swim_mutex);
return err;
}
@@ -839,11 +836,9 @@ static int swim_floppy_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EBUSY;
}
- spin_lock_init(&swd->lock);
-
for (drive = 0; drive < swd->floppy_count; drive++) {
err = blk_mq_alloc_sq_tag_set(&swd->unit[drive].tag_set,
- &swim_mq_ops, 2, 0);
+ &swim_mq_ops, 2, BLK_MQ_F_BLOCKING);
if (err)
goto exit_put_disks;
--
2.52.0