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    USB: f_mass_storage: improve memory barriers and synchronization · 225785ae
    Alan Stern authored
    This patch reworks the way f_mass_storage.c handles memory barriers
    and synchronization:
    
    	The driver now uses a wait_queue instead of doing its own
    	task-state manipulations (even though only one task will ever
    	use the wait_queue).
    
    	The thread_wakeup_needed variable is removed.  It was only a
    	source of trouble; although it was what the driver tested to
    	see whether it should wake up, what we really wanted to see
    	was whether a USB transfer had completed.
    
    	All the explicit memory barriers scattered throughout the
    	driver are replaced by a few calls to smp_load_acquire() and
    	smp_store_release().
    
    	The inreq_busy and outreq_busy fields are removed.  In their
    	place, the driver keeps track of the current I/O direction by
    	splitting BUF_STATE_BUSY into two states: BUF_STATE_SENDING
    	and BUF_STATE_RECEIVING.
    
    	The buffer states are no longer protected by a lock.  Mutual
    	exclusion isn't needed; the state is changed only by the
    	driver's main thread when it owns the buffer, and only by the
    	request completion routine when the gadget core owns the buffer.
    
    	The do_write() and throw_away_data() routines were reorganized
    	to make efficient use of the new sleeping mechanism.  This
    	resulted in the removal of one indentation level in those
    	routines, making the patch appear to be more more complicated
    	than it really is.
    
    	In a few places, the driver allowed itself to be frozen although
    	it really shouldn't have (in the middle of executing a SCSI
    	command).  Those places have been fixed.
    
    	The logic in the exception handler for aborting transfers and
    	waiting for them to stop has been simplified.
    Tested-by: default avatarThinh Nguyen <thinhn@synopsys.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFelipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
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