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Commit 646017a6 authored by Keith Busch's avatar Keith Busch Committed by Jens Axboe
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NVMe: Fix namespace removal deadlock



This patch makes nvme namespace removal lockless. It is up to the caller
to ensure no active namespace scanning is occuring. To ensure no scan
work occurs, the nvme pci driver adds a removing state to the controller
device to avoid queueing scan work during removal. The work is flushed
after setting the state, so no new scan work can be queued.

The lockless removal allows the driver to cleanup a namespace
request_queue if the controller fails during removal. Previously this
could deadlock trying to acquire the namespace mutex in order to handle
such events.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
parent 075790eb
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