[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 05/21] multipathd: use volatile qualifier for running_state

mwilck at suse.com mwilck at suse.com
Fri Oct 16 10:43:13 UTC 2020


From: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>

While we access running_state only under the config_lock,
we sometimes do in a loop. Use the volatile qualifier to make
sure compilers can't optimize away the loads.

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
---
 multipathd/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c
index e3f2328..d081b3e 100644
--- a/multipathd/main.c
+++ b/multipathd/main.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int poll_dmevents = 0;
 int poll_dmevents = 1;
 #endif
 /* Don't access this variable without holding config_lock */
-enum daemon_status running_state = DAEMON_INIT;
+volatile enum daemon_status running_state = DAEMON_INIT;
 pid_t daemon_pid;
 pthread_mutex_t config_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
 pthread_cond_t config_cond;
-- 
2.28.0





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