linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: do not reserve lun on l2p loading

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Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:32:26 +0100
From:	Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To:	Javier González <jg@...htnvm.io>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	Javier González <javier@...xlabs.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: do not reserve lun on l2p loading

On 02/17/2016 12:16 PM, Javier González wrote:
> When the l2p table is loaded, addresses are checked for the lun they
> belong to and luns are reserved accordingly. This assumes that metadata
> is being stored in the backend device to recover the previous target
> configuration. Since this is not yet implemented, this check collides
> with some of the core initialization (e.g., sysblock initialization when
> a page is formed by several sectors).
>
> We take this check out and for now rely on that the right target will be
> created instead. When metadata is stored to recover a target, this check
> will come natural as aprt of the recovery strategy.
>
> FIXES c87ea75
>
> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@...xlabs.com>
> ---
>   drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c | 3 ---
>   1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c b/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
> index b97801c..42c1c2a 100644
> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
> @@ -192,9 +192,6 @@ static int gennvm_block_map(u64 slba, u32 nlb, __le64 *entries, void *private)
>   		lun_id = div_u64(pba, dev->sec_per_lun);
>   		lun = &gn->luns[lun_id];
>
> -		if (!test_bit(lun_id, dev->lun_map))
> -			__set_bit(lun_id, dev->lun_map);
> -
>   		/* Calculate block offset into lun */
>   		pba = pba - (dev->sec_per_lun * lun_id);
>   		blk = &lun->vlun.blocks[div_u64(pba, dev->sec_per_blk)];
>

Thanks Javier, applied.

-Matias