Commit a3e9af95 authored May 01, 2017 by Dan Williams

libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"



This continues the 4.11 status quo of disabling of error clearing from
the BTT I/O path. Toshi found that even though we have eliminated all
the libnvdimm sources of sleeping-while-atomic triggers, we still have
sleeping operations that will occur in the path to send the ACPI DSM to
the DIMM to clear the error:

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:432
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 13353, name: dd
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x86/0xc3
  ___might_sleep+0x17d/0x250
  __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
  __kmalloc+0x1c0/0x2e0
  acpi_os_allocate_zeroed+0x2d/0x2f
  acpi_evaluate_object+0x59/0x3b1
  acpi_evaluate_dsm+0xbd/0x10c
  acpi_nfit_ctl+0x1ef/0x7c0 [nfit]
  ? nsio_rw_bytes+0x152/0x280
  nvdimm_clear_poison+0x77/0x140
  nsio_rw_bytes+0x18f/0x280
  btt_write_pg+0x1d4/0x3d0 [nd_btt]
  btt_make_request+0x119/0x2d0 [nd_btt]

A solution for tracking and handling media errors natively in the BTT is
needed.

Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

parent 452bae0a

drivers/nvdimm/claim.c

+10 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -250,7 +250,16 @@ static int nsio_rw_bytes(struct nd_namespace_common *ndns,
		}

		if (unlikely(is_bad_pmem(&nsio->bb, sector, sz_align))) {
		if (IS_ALIGNED(offset, 512) && IS_ALIGNED(size, 512)) {
		/*
		* FIXME: nsio_rw_bytes() may be called from atomic
		* context in the btt case and the ACPI DSM path for
		* clearing the error takes sleeping locks and allocates
		* memory. An explicit error clearing path, and support
		* for tracking badblocks in BTT metadata is needed to
		* work around this collision.
		*/
		if (IS_ALIGNED(offset, 512) && IS_ALIGNED(size, 512)
		&& (!ndns->claim \|\| !is_nd_btt(ndns->claim))) {
		long cleared;

		cleared = nvdimm_clear_poison(&ndns->dev,

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