[PATCH] lightnvm: pblk: remove spinlock when freeing line metadata

From: Hans Holmberg
Date: Thu Oct 05 2017 - 04:37:04 EST


From: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Lockdep complains about being in atomic context while freeing line
metadata - and rightly so as we take a spinlock and end up calling
vfree that might sleep(in pblk_mfree).

There is no need for holding the line manager free_lock while
freeing line metadata, so remove the lock.

Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch is for:
https://github.com/OpenChannelSSD/linux branch for-4.15/pblk

drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
index c452478..a645117 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
@@ -393,13 +393,11 @@ static void pblk_line_meta_free(struct pblk *pblk)
kfree(l_mg->bb_aux);
kfree(l_mg->vsc_list);

- spin_lock(&l_mg->free_lock);
for (i = 0; i < PBLK_DATA_LINES; i++) {
kfree(l_mg->sline_meta[i]);
pblk_mfree(l_mg->eline_meta[i]->buf, l_mg->emeta_alloc_type);
kfree(l_mg->eline_meta[i]);
}
- spin_unlock(&l_mg->free_lock);

kfree(pblk->lines);
}
--
2.7.4