Commit fc13457f authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe

blk-mq: document the need to have STARTED and COMPLETED share a byte

For memory ordering guarantees on stores, we need to ensure that
these two bits share the same byte of storage in the unsigned
long. Add a comment as to why, and a BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure that
we don't violate this requirement.
Suggested-by: default avatarBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent a7af0af3
......@@ -2923,6 +2923,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_mq_poll);
static int __init blk_mq_init(void)
{
/*
* See comment in block/blk.h rq_atomic_flags enum
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON((REQ_ATOM_STARTED / BITS_PER_BYTE) !=
(REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE / BITS_PER_BYTE));
cpuhp_setup_state_multi(CPUHP_BLK_MQ_DEAD, "block/mq:dead", NULL,
blk_mq_hctx_notify_dead);
return 0;
......
......@@ -122,8 +122,15 @@ void blk_account_io_done(struct request *req);
* Internal atomic flags for request handling
*/
enum rq_atomic_flags {
/*
* Keep these two bits first - not because we depend on the
* value of them, but we do depend on them being in the same
* byte of storage to ensure ordering on writes. Keeping them
* first will achieve that nicely.
*/
REQ_ATOM_COMPLETE = 0,
REQ_ATOM_STARTED,
REQ_ATOM_POLL_SLEPT,
};
......
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