lightnvm: pblk: prevent race in pblk_rb_flush_point_set

Make sure that we are not advancing the sync pointer while
we're adding bios to the write buffer entry completion list.

This race condition results in bios not completing and was identified
by a hang when running xfstest generic/113.

Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Hans Holmberg 2018-03-30 00:04:58 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent b966c50b14
commit 3c05ef115c

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@ -355,10 +355,13 @@ static int pblk_rb_flush_point_set(struct pblk_rb *rb, struct bio *bio,
struct pblk_rb_entry *entry;
unsigned int sync, flush_point;
pblk_rb_sync_init(rb, NULL);
sync = READ_ONCE(rb->sync);
if (pos == sync)
if (pos == sync) {
pblk_rb_sync_end(rb, NULL);
return 0;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG
atomic_inc(&rb->inflight_flush_point);
@ -367,8 +370,6 @@ static int pblk_rb_flush_point_set(struct pblk_rb *rb, struct bio *bio,
flush_point = (pos == 0) ? (rb->nr_entries - 1) : (pos - 1);
entry = &rb->entries[flush_point];
pblk_rb_sync_init(rb, NULL);
/* Protect flush points */
smp_store_release(&rb->flush_point, flush_point);