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Commit 943317ef authored by Jonathan Brassow's avatar Jonathan Brassow Committed by Linus Torvalds
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dm raid1: clear region outside spinlock



A clear_region function is permitted to block (in practice, rare) but gets
called in rh_update_states() with a spinlock held.

The bits being marked and cleared by the above functions are used
to update the on-disk log, but are never read directly.  We can
perform these operations outside the spinlock since the
bits are only changed within one thread viz.
   - mark_region in rh_inc()
   - clear_region in rh_update_states().

So, we grab the clean_regions list items via list_splice() within the
spinlock and defer clear_region() until we iterate over the list for
deletion - similar to how the recovered_regions list is already handled.
We then move the flush() call down to ensure it encapsulates the changes
which are done by the later calls to clear_region().

Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0764147b
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