[PATCH v2] nvmet: protect sqhd update by a lock

James Smart jsmart2021 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 08:18:20 PDT 2017


In testing target io in read write mix, we did indeed get into cases
where sqhd didn't update properly and slowly missed enough updates to
shutdown the queue.

Protect the read/modify/set update of sqhd under a lock for coherency.

Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart at broadcom.com>

---
v2: move locks so around update and assignment

 drivers/nvme/target/core.c  | 5 +++++
 drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index cfc35cbb6fe2..28300e9bbef1 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -387,12 +387,16 @@ struct nvmet_ns *nvmet_ns_alloc(struct nvmet_subsys *subsys, u32 nsid)
 
 static void __nvmet_req_complete(struct nvmet_req *req, u16 status)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+
 	if (status)
 		nvmet_set_status(req, status);
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&req->sq->sqhd_lock, flags);
 	if (req->sq->size)
 		req->sq->sqhd = (req->sq->sqhd + 1) % req->sq->size;
 	req->rsp->sq_head = cpu_to_le16(req->sq->sqhd);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&req->sq->sqhd_lock, flags);
 	req->rsp->sq_id = cpu_to_le16(req->sq->qid);
 	req->rsp->command_id = req->cmd->common.command_id;
 
@@ -425,6 +429,7 @@ void nvmet_sq_setup(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvmet_sq *sq,
 	sq->size = size;
 
 	ctrl->sqs[qid] = sq;
+	spin_lock_init(&sq->sqhd_lock);
 }
 
 static void nvmet_confirm_sq(struct percpu_ref *ref)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h b/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h
index ed38b44a7007..bdb904bdf676 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct nvmet_sq {
 	u16			sqhd;
 	struct completion	free_done;
 	struct completion	confirm_done;
+	spinlock_t		sqhd_lock;
 };
 
 /**
-- 
2.13.1




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