From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:24:48 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: svcrpc: svc_close_xprt comment
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b176331627fccc726d28f4fc4a357d1f3c19dbf0;p=linux-beck.git

svcrpc: svc_close_xprt comment

Neil Brown had to explain to me why we do this here; record the answer
for posterity.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index 8c018df80692..bfbda676574a 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -931,7 +931,12 @@ void svc_close_xprt(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 	if (test_and_set_bit(XPT_BUSY, &xprt->xpt_flags))
 		/* someone else will have to effect the close */
 		return;
-
+	/*
+	 * We expect svc_close_xprt() to work even when no threads are
+	 * running (e.g., while configuring the server before starting
+	 * any threads), so if the transport isn't busy, we delete
+	 * it ourself:
+	 */
 	svc_delete_xprt(xprt);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(svc_close_xprt);