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Previously we will raise an warning if we want to insert a csd object which is with the LOCK flag set, and if it happens we'll also wait for the lock to be released. However, this operation does not match perfectly with how the function is named - the name with "_async" suffix hints that this function should not block, while we will. This patch changed this behavior by simply return -EBUSY instead of waiting, at the meantime we allow this operation to happen without warning the user to change this into a feature when the caller wants to "insert a csd object, if it's there, just wait for that one". This is pretty safe because in flush_smp_call_function_queue() for async csd objects (where csd->flags&SYNC is zero) we'll first do the unlock then we call the csd->func(). So if we see the csd->flags&LOCK is true in smp_call_function_single_async(), then it's guaranteed that csd->func() will be called after this smp_call_function_single_async() returns -EBUSY. Update the comment of the function too to refect this. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191216213125.9536-2-peterx@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.