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

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 10/05/2017 11:35 AM, Hans Holmberg wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I guess this also deserves stable tag. The bug was introduced in 4.13 by
commit 588726d3ec68 ("lightnvm: pblk: fail gracefully on irrec. error").


> ---
> 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);
>  }
>