lightnvm: pblk: fix race condition on GC

This patch fixes a race condition where a write is mapped to the last
sectors of a line. The write is synced to the device but the L2P is not
updated yet. When the line is garbage collected before the L2P update
is performed, the sectors are ignored by the GC logic and the line is
freed before all sectors are moved. When the L2P is finally updated, it
contains a mapping to a freed line, subsequent reads of the
corresponding LBAs fail.

This patch introduces a per line counter specifying the number of
sectors that are synced to the device but have not been updated in the
L2P. Lines with a counter of greater than zero will not be selected
for GC.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Litz <hlitz@ucsc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
index 2a9e9facf44f..6ca868868fee 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c
@@ -1278,6 +1278,7 @@ static int pblk_line_prepare(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line)
 	spin_unlock(&line->lock);
 
 	kref_init(&line->ref);
+	atomic_set(&line->sec_to_update, 0);
 
 	return 0;
 }