linux-stable/drivers/nvme
Jianchao Wang 765cc031cd nvme: change namespaces_mutext to namespaces_rwsem
namespaces_mutext is used to synchronize the operations on ctrl
namespaces list. Most of the time, it is a read operation.

On the other hand, there are many interfaces in nvme core that
need this lock, such as nvme_wait_freeze, and even more interfaces
will be added. If we use mutex here, circular dependency could be
introduced easily. For example:
context A                  context B
nvme_xxx                   nvme_xxx
hold namespaces_mutext     require namespaces_mutext
sync context B

So it is better to change it from mutex to rwsem.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-03-26 08:53:43 -06:00
..
host nvme: change namespaces_mutext to namespaces_rwsem 2018-03-26 08:53:43 -06:00
target nvmet: don't return "any" ip address in discovery log page 2018-03-26 08:53:43 -06:00
Kconfig nvme: use menu Kconfig interface 2017-10-04 09:43:57 +02:00
Makefile nvmet: add a generic NVMe target 2016-07-05 11:30:33 -06:00