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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:40:17 +0000 (14:40 +0200)
commit8dc9f9dede5b92658a1bb32866e11905933d2b48
tree051205a4e0dfb0735b846461cd022983e114d94e
parent4ebe28d23d35df2e69542c0146a74d21834ef235
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