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block: Shorten interrupt disabled regions
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 4 May 2018 14:32:47 +0000 (16:32 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 7 May 2018 21:26:36 +0000 (15:26 -0600)
commitfddef175a89a6edff22e137c84b6f84261e7b501
treec03eba4af50d60d770e583a90f7786d48d23a562
parent1581c82f7b030b0e262e2f58cf48cc7b58ab685c
block: Shorten interrupt disabled regions

Commit 8d37220090ab ("sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of
__schedule()") moved the blk_schedule_flush_plug() call out of the
interrupt/preempt disabled region in the scheduler. This allows to replace
local_irq_save/restore(flags) by local_irq_disable/enable() in
blk_flush_plug_list().

But it makes more sense to disable interrupts explicitly when the request
queue is locked end reenable them when the request to is unlocked. This
shortens the interrupt disabled section which is important when the plug
list contains requests for more than one queue. The comment which claims
that disabling interrupts around the loop is misleading as the called
functions can reenable interrupts unconditionally anyway and obfuscates the
scope badly:

 local_irq_save(flags);
   spin_lock(q->queue_lock);
   ...
   queue_unplugged(q...);
     scsi_request_fn();
       spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);

-------------------^^^ ????

       spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
     spin_unlock(q->queue_lock);
 local_irq_restore(flags);

Aside of that the detached interrupt disabling is a constant pain for
PREEMPT_RT as it requires patching and special casing when RT is enabled
while with the spin_*_irq() variants this happens automatically.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110622174919.025446432@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block/blk-core.c