libnvdimm: fix clear poison locking with spinlock and GFP_NOWAIT allocation
authorDave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:25:17 +0000 (14:25 -0700)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:23:51 +0000 (14:23 -0700)
commitb3b454f694db663773bc22002e10909afe9c1739
treecca98ec1b74eb5b95569476bec8782d79aa04829
parentefebc711180f7fed701f6e23f23814fcfda7fbfc
libnvdimm: fix clear poison locking with spinlock and GFP_NOWAIT allocation

The following warning results from holding a lane spinlock,
preempt_disable(), or the btt map spinlock and then trying to take the
reconfig_mutex to walk the poison list and potentially add new entries.

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.
c:747
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 17159, name: dd
[..]
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x85/0xc8
___might_sleep+0x184/0x250
__might_sleep+0x4a/0x90
__mutex_lock+0x58/0x9b0
? nvdimm_bus_lock+0x21/0x30 [libnvdimm]
? __nvdimm_bus_badblocks_clear+0x2f/0x60 [libnvdimm]
? acpi_nfit_forget_poison+0x79/0x80 [nfit]
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x27/0x40
mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
nvdimm_bus_lock+0x21/0x30 [libnvdimm]
nvdimm_forget_poison+0x25/0x50 [libnvdimm]
nvdimm_clear_poison+0x106/0x140 [libnvdimm]
nsio_rw_bytes+0x164/0x270 [libnvdimm]
btt_write_pg+0x1de/0x3e0 [nd_btt]
? blk_queue_enter+0x30/0x290
btt_make_request+0x11a/0x310 [nd_btt]
? blk_queue_enter+0xb7/0x290
? blk_queue_enter+0x30/0x290
generic_make_request+0x118/0x3b0

A spinlock is introduced to protect the poison list. This allows us to not
having to acquire the reconfig_mutex for touching the poison list. The
add_poison() function has been broken out into two helper functions. One to
allocate the poison entry and the other to apppend the entry. This allows us
to unlock the poison_lock in non-I/O path and continue to be able to allocate
the poison entry with GFP_KERNEL. We will use GFP_NOWAIT in the I/O path in
order to satisfy being in atomic context.

Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
drivers/nvdimm/core.c
drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h
include/linux/libnvdimm.h