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authorJavier González <javier@javigon.com>2018-12-11 22:16:19 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-12-11 22:22:34 +0300
commit361d889f830ef61e4eae442c4c89fb14b626375f (patch)
tree2bd986272d3a759d4ef957fcaf56f7e67f75711f /drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
parentfde201a466c6ad5efd72cb54fdf2cefa8b6c6ad7 (diff)
downloadlinux-361d889f830ef61e4eae442c4c89fb14b626375f.tar.xz
lightnvm: pblk: add comments wrt locking in recovery path
pblk's recovery path is single threaded and therefore a number of assumptions regarding concurrency can be made. To avoid confusion, make this explicit with a couple of comments in the code. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
index 416d9840544b..4c726506a831 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
* General Public License for more details.
*
* pblk-recovery.c - pblk's recovery path
+ *
+ * The L2P recovery path is single threaded as the L2P table is updated in order
+ * following the line sequence ID.
*/
#include "pblk.h"