lightnvm: pblk: remove spinlock when freeing line metadata
authorHans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:46:43 +0000 (14:46 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:34:57 +0000 (08:34 -0600)
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 as the pipeline as stopped, so remove the lock.

Fixes: 588726d3ec68 ("lightnvm: pblk: fail gracefully on irrec. error")
Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c

index 52c85f4f672de395419b6417ad89932058aea44a..f62112ba5482a345e33fa4bddb537b25d3c2db95 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 }