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[GIT,PULL,13/21] lightnvm: pblk: add comments wrt locking in recovery path

Message ID 20181211191627.15542-14-mb@lightnvm.io (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series lightnvm updates for 4.21 | expand

Commit Message

Matias Bjorling Dec. 11, 2018, 7:16 p.m. UTC 
From: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>

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 González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
---
 drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c     | 1 +
 drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
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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"