xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthread
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Thu, 18 May 2017 15:28:49 +0000 (17:28 +0200)
committerRaspbian kernel package updater <root@raspbian.org>
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 03:03:54 +0000 (03:03 +0000)
commit079107a3f057aee92d03d130661480ddb9695ad0
tree66f1b04a9fec242ed23009c52a6905ee50fc493b
parentf78d5e20143a5b8ea7527e6ae3de59808c15bfde
xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthread

commit a24fa22ce22ae302b3bf8f7008896d52d5d57b8d upstream.

There is no need to use xen_blkif_get()/xen_blkif_put() in the kthread
of xen-blkback. Thread stopping is synchronous and using the blkif
reference counting in the kthread will avoid to ever let the reference
count drop to zero at the end of an I/O running concurrent to
disconnecting and multiple rings.

Setting ring->xenblkd to NULL after stopping the kthread isn't needed
as the kthread does this already.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c