[PATCH 4/4] Staging: lustre: sparse lock warning fix

Dilger, Andreas andreas.dilger at intel.com
Wed May 20 16:51:59 UTC 2015


On 2015/05/18, 3:21 PM, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:

>On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 08:34:51PM +0200, Adrian Remonda wrote:
>> Fixed sparse warning: context imbalance in 'nrs_resource_put_safe' -
>> 'different lock contexts for basic block' by releasing the lock on each
>> iteration of the for loop.
>> 
>
>That changelog doesn't sound correct at all.  That's not a correct
>motivation or explanation.
>
>I reviewed the patch and it's likely going to cause dead locks. The code
>is trying to take the spinlock for the first pointer in the array and
>release it at the end.  Now it takes the first pointer's spinlock a
>bunch of times (dead lock) and releases it once (will not happen because
>we are already dead).

It isn't clear to me what the checkpatch complaint actually means?  Is it
that the spin_lock() and spin_unlock() calls have different amounts of
indentation?

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger

Lustre Software Architect
Intel High Performance Data Division




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