On Wed, 23 May 2007 12:03:55 -0500
James Bottomley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:31 -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:12:11 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:38:35 -0700
> > > Kristen Carlson Accardi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Send an uevent to user space to indicate that a media change event has occurred.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > Index: 2.6-git/block/genhd.c
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- 2.6-git.orig/block/genhd.c
> > > > +++ 2.6-git/block/genhd.c
> > > > @@ -643,6 +643,27 @@ struct seq_operations diskstats_op = {
> > > > .show = diskstats_show
> > > > };
> > > >
> > > > +static void media_change_notify_thread(struct work_struct *work)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct gendisk *gd = container_of(work, struct gendisk, async_notify);
> > > > + char event[] = "MEDIA_CHANGE=1";
> > > > + char *envp[] = { event, NULL };
> > > > +
> > > > + /*
> > > > + * set enviroment vars to indicate which event this is for
> > > > + * so that user space will know to go check the media status.
> > > > + */
> > > > + kobject_uevent_env(&gd->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
> > > > + put_device(gd->driverfs_dev);
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +void genhd_media_change_notify(struct gendisk *disk)
> > > > +{
> > > > + get_device(disk->driverfs_dev);
> > > > + schedule_work(&disk->async_notify);
> > > > +}
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(genhd_media_change_notify);
> > > > +
> > > > struct gendisk *alloc_disk(int minors)
> > > > {
> > > > return alloc_disk_node(minors, -1);
> > > > @@ -672,6 +693,8 @@ struct gendisk *alloc_disk_node(int mino
> > > > kobj_set_kset_s(disk,block_subsys);
> > > > kobject_init(&disk->kobj);
> > > > rand_initialize_disk(disk);
> > > > + INIT_WORK(&disk->async_notify,
> > > > + media_change_notify_thread);
> > > > }
> > > > return disk;
> > >
> > > Why does this do a schedule_work() rather than calling kobject_uevent_env()
> > > directly?
> > >
> >
> > Because it is called at Interrupt time.
>
> It better not be ... there's two GFP_KERNEL allocations just above this
> line in the file.
>
> James
>
Where? We are talking about the call to genhd_media_change_notify().
the calling path is this:
ahci_host_intr()->ata_scsi_media_change_notify()->genhd_media_change_notify().
I don't see the allocations - are they hidden somewhere?
thanks,
Kristen
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