Re: [patch 5/7] genhd: send async notification on media change

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:31 -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:12:11 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:38:35 -0700
> > Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Send an uevent to user space to indicate that a media change event has occurred.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
> > > 
> > > 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