libnvdimm, btt: rework error clearing

Clearing errors or badblocks during a BTT write requires sending an ACPI
DSM, which means potentially sleeping. Since a BTT IO happens in atomic
context (preemption disabled, spinlocks may be held), we cannot perform
error clearing in the course of an IO. Due to this error clearing for
BTT IOs has hitherto been disabled.

In this patch we move error clearing out of the atomic section, and thus
re-enable error clearing with BTTs. When we are about to add a block to
the free list, we check if it was previously marked as an error, and if
it was, we add it to the freelist, but also set a flag that says error
clearing will be required. We then drop the lane (ending the atomic
context), and send a zero buffer so that the error can be cleared. The
error flag in the free list is protected by the nd 'lane', and is set
only be a thread while it holds that lane. When the error is cleared,
the flag is cleared, but while holding a mutex for that freelist index.

When writing, we check for two things -
1/ If the freelist mutex is held or if the error flag is set. If so,
this is an error block that is being (or about to be) cleared.
2/ If the block is a known badblock based on nsio->bb

The second check is required because the BTT map error flag for a map
entry only gets set when an error LBA is read. If we write to a new
location that may not have the map error flag set, but still might be in
the region's badblock list, we can trigger an EIO on the write, which is
undesirable and completely avoidable.

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

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/claim.c b/drivers/nvdimm/claim.c
index 3e6404f1ba5a..b2fc29b8279b 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/claim.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/claim.c
@@ -280,14 +280,6 @@ static int nsio_rw_bytes(struct nd_namespace_common *ndns,
 	}
 
 	if (unlikely(is_bad_pmem(&nsio->bb, sector, sz_align))) {
-		/*
-		 * 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)
 				&& !(flags & NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC)) {
 			long cleared;