[GIT PULL] NVMe changes for 4.5-rc1

Keith Busch keith.busch at intel.com
Fri Jan 22 14:16:22 PST 2016


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:08:05PM +0000, Keith Busch wrote:
> Looks like IO ending is the only conflict. The cleanup below will
> get the functionality back.

Oh sorry, but something's actually off with this. I tested removal w/
IO using O_DIRECT by mistake, but the failure this was supposed to
fix requires using page cache. I disabled direct in the fio profile,
and now getting a hung surprise removal.

I'll have to circle back on this on Monday.

> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> index 72ef832..5d31cfc 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
> @@ -2118,6 +2118,15 @@ static void nvme_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
>  	flush_work(&dev->reset_work);
>  	flush_work(&dev->scan_work);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If the controller can't do IO (surprise removal, for example), we
> +	 * need to disable prior to deleting namespaces. This ends outstanding
> +	 * requests and prevents attempts to sync dirty data.
> +	 */
> +	if (nvme_io_incapable(&dev->ctrl))
> +		nvme_dev_disable(dev, true);
> +
>  	nvme_remove_namespaces(&dev->ctrl);
>  	nvme_uninit_ctrl(&dev->ctrl);
>  	nvme_dev_disable(dev, true);
> --



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