Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: pblk: add comments wrt locking in recovery path

[Matias BjÃrling]

On 11/28/2018 12:20 PM, Javier GonzÃlez wrote:
> pblk's recovery path is single threaded and therefore a number of
> assumptions regarding concurrency can be made. To avoid confusion, make
> this explicit with a couple of comments in the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier GonzÃlez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c     | 1 +
>   drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c | 3 +++
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
> index 44c5dc046912..f1b411e7c7c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
> @@ -1276,6 +1276,7 @@ static int pblk_line_prepare(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> +/* Line allocations in the recovery path are always single threaded */
>   int pblk_line_recov_alloc(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line)
>   {
>   	struct pblk_line_mgmt *l_mg = &pblk->l_mg;
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
> index 416d9840544b..4c726506a831 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
>    * General Public License for more details.
>    *
>    * pblk-recovery.c - pblk's recovery path
> + *
> + * The L2P recovery path is single threaded as the L2P table is updated in order
> + * following the line sequence ID.
>    */
>   
>   #include "pblk.h"

Picked up for 4.21.