[RFC PATCH 2/3] nvme-pci: make completion queue polling softirq-safe

From: Naman Jain

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 01:07:05 EST


A following patch processes interrupt-driven completion queues from
IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ. Ensure every task-context user disables bottom halves
while holding cq_poll_lock so the softirq cannot interrupt the local
owner.

This includes explicit blk-mq polling. Those queues do not use irq_poll,
but all cq_poll_lock instances share one lockdep class because they are
initialized at the same call site. Keep that class consistently
softirq-safe rather than reclassifying reused queue objects across reset.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Naman Jain <namjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index dbcfc7ddb78aa..bd4a6461b620f 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -1673,9 +1673,9 @@ static void nvme_poll_irqdisable(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq)

irq = pci_irq_vector(pdev, nvmeq->cq_vector);
disable_irq(irq);
- spin_lock(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
nvme_poll_cq(nvmeq, NULL);
- spin_unlock(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
enable_irq(irq);
}

@@ -1688,9 +1688,9 @@ static int nvme_poll(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct io_comp_batch *iob)
!nvme_cqe_pending(nvmeq))
return 0;

- spin_lock(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
found = nvme_poll_cq(nvmeq, iob);
- spin_unlock(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&nvmeq->cq_poll_lock);

return found;
}
@@ -2086,9 +2086,9 @@ static void nvme_reap_pending_cqes(struct nvme_dev *dev)
int i;

for (i = dev->ctrl.queue_count - 1; i > 0; i--) {
- spin_lock(&dev->queues[i].cq_poll_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&dev->queues[i].cq_poll_lock);
nvme_poll_cq(&dev->queues[i], NULL);
- spin_unlock(&dev->queues[i].cq_poll_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&dev->queues[i].cq_poll_lock);
}
}