Date:   Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:50:04 +0200
From:   Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
To:     javier@...xlabs.com
Cc:     igor.j.konopko@...el.com, marcin.dziegielewski@...el.com,
        hans.holmberg@...xlabs.com, hlitz@...c.edu,
        youngtack.jin@...cuitblvd.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: move bad block and chunk state logic to core

On 08/20/2018 02:13 PM, Javier Gonzalez wrote:
>> On 17 Aug 2018, at 13.14, Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io> wrote:
>>
>> pblk implements two data paths for recovery line state. One for 1.2
>> and another for 2.0, instead of having pblk implement these, combine
>> them in the core to reduce complexity and make available to other
>> targets.
>>
>> The new interface will adhere to the 2.0 chunk definition,
>> including managing open chunks with an active write pointer. To provide
>> this interface, a 1.2 device recovers the state of the chunks by
>> manually detecting if a chunk is either free/open/close/offline, and if
>> open, scanning the flash pages sequentially to find the next writeable
>> page. This process takes on average ~10 seconds on a device with 64 dies,
>> 1024 blocks and 60us read access time. The process can be parallelized
>> but is left out for maintenance simplicity, as the 1.2 specification is
>> deprecated. For 2.0 devices, the logic is maintained internally in the
>> drive and retrieved through the 2.0 interface.
> 
> A couple of things from closer review.
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@...htnvm.io>
>> ---
>> drivers/lightnvm/core.c      | 310 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c |   6 +-
>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 116 +---------------
>> drivers/lightnvm/pblk.h      |   2 +-
>> drivers/nvme/host/lightnvm.c |   4 +-
>> include/linux/lightnvm.h     |  15 +--
>> 6 files changed, 266 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
>> index 964352720a03..003fc073f496 100644
>> --- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
>> @@ -717,46 +717,6 @@ static void nvm_free_rqd_ppalist(struct nvm_tgt_dev *tgt_dev,
>> 	nvm_dev_dma_free(tgt_dev->parent, rqd->ppa_list, rqd->dma_ppa_list);
>> }
>>
>> -int nvm_get_chunk_meta(struct nvm_tgt_dev *tgt_dev, struct nvm_chk_meta *meta,
>> -		struct ppa_addr ppa, int nchks)
>> -{
>> -	struct nvm_dev *dev = tgt_dev->parent;
>> -
>> -	nvm_ppa_tgt_to_dev(tgt_dev, &ppa, 1);
>> -
>> -	return dev->ops->get_chk_meta(tgt_dev->parent, meta,
>> -						(sector_t)ppa.ppa, nchks);
>> -}
>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_get_chunk_meta);
>> -
>> -int nvm_set_tgt_bb_tbl(struct nvm_tgt_dev *tgt_dev, struct ppa_addr *ppas,
>> -		       int nr_ppas, int type)
>> -{
>> -	struct nvm_dev *dev = tgt_dev->parent;
>> -	struct nvm_rq rqd;
>> -	int ret;
>> -
>> -	if (nr_ppas > NVM_MAX_VLBA) {
>> -		pr_err("nvm: unable to update all blocks atomically\n");
>> -		return -EINVAL;
>> -	}
>> -
>> -	memset(&rqd, 0, sizeof(struct nvm_rq));
>> -
>> -	nvm_set_rqd_ppalist(tgt_dev, &rqd, ppas, nr_ppas);
>> -	nvm_rq_tgt_to_dev(tgt_dev, &rqd);
>> -
>> -	ret = dev->ops->set_bb_tbl(dev, &rqd.ppa_addr, rqd.nr_ppas, type);
>> -	nvm_free_rqd_ppalist(tgt_dev, &rqd);
>> -	if (ret) {
>> -		pr_err("nvm: failed bb mark\n");
>> -		return -EINVAL;
>> -	}
>> -
>> -	return 0;
>> -}
>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_set_tgt_bb_tbl);
>> -
>> static int nvm_set_flags(struct nvm_geo *geo, struct nvm_rq *rqd)
>> {
>> 	int flags = 0;
>> @@ -830,27 +790,159 @@ void nvm_end_io(struct nvm_rq *rqd)
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_end_io);
>>
>> +static int nvm_submit_io_sync_raw(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct nvm_rq *rqd)
>> +{
>> +	if (!dev->ops->submit_io_sync)
>> +		return -ENODEV;
>> +
>> +	rqd->flags = nvm_set_flags(&dev->geo, rqd);
>> +
>> +	return dev->ops->submit_io_sync(dev, rqd);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static int nvm_bb_chunk_sense(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct ppa_addr ppa)
>> +{
>> +	struct nvm_rq rqd = { NULL };
>> +	struct bio bio;
>> +	struct bio_vec bio_vec;
>> +	struct page *page;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!page)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +	bio_init(&bio, &bio_vec, 1);
>> +	bio_add_page(&bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
>> +	bio_set_op_attrs(&bio, REQ_OP_READ, 0);
>> +
>> +	rqd.bio = &bio;
>> +	rqd.opcode = NVM_OP_PREAD;
>> +	rqd.is_seq = 1;
>> +	rqd.nr_ppas = 1;
>> +	rqd.ppa_addr = generic_to_dev_addr(dev, ppa);
>> +
>> +	ret = nvm_submit_io_sync_raw(dev, &rqd);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>> +
>> +	__free_page(page);
>> +
>> +	return rqd.error;
>> +}
>> +
>> /*
>> - * folds a bad block list from its plane representation to its virtual
>> - * block representation. The fold is done in place and reduced size is
>> - * returned.
>> + * Scans a 1.2 chunk first and last page to determine if its state.
>> + * If the chunk is found to be open, also scan it to update the write
>> + * pointer.
>> + */
>> +static int nvm_bb_scan_chunk(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct ppa_addr ppa,
>> +			     struct nvm_chk_meta *meta)
> 
> Keeping some name consistency would help nvm_bb_chunk_*
> 
>> [...]
> 
>> +
>> +static int nvm_get_bb_meta(struct nvm_dev *dev, sector_t slba,
>> +			   int nchks, struct nvm_chk_meta *meta)
>> +{
>> +	struct nvm_geo *geo = &dev->geo;
>> +	struct ppa_addr ppa;
>> +	u8 *blks;
>> +	int ch, lun, nr_blks;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	ppa.ppa = slba;
>> +	ppa = dev_to_generic_addr(dev, ppa);
>> +
>> +	if (ppa.g.blk != 0)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	if ((nchks % geo->num_chk) != 0)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	nr_blks = geo->num_chk * geo->pln_mode;
>> +
>> +	blks = kmalloc(nr_blks, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!blks)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>> +
>> +	for (ch = ppa.g.ch; ch < geo->num_ch; ch++) {
>> +		for (lun = ppa.g.lun; lun < geo->num_lun; lun++) {
>> +			struct ppa_addr ppa_gen, ppa_dev;
>> +
>> +			if (!nchks)
>> +				goto out;
> 
> You should free blks here too.
> 
>> +
>> +			ppa_gen.ppa = 0;
>> +			ppa_gen.a.ch = ch;
>> +			ppa_gen.a.lun = lun;
>> +			ppa_dev = generic_to_dev_addr(dev, ppa_gen);
>> +
>> +			ret = dev->ops->get_bb_tbl(dev, ppa_dev, blks);
>> +			if (ret)
>> +				goto err;
>> +
>> +			ret = nvm_bb_to_chunk(dev, ppa_gen, blks, nr_blks,
>> +									meta);
>> +			if (ret)
>> +				goto err;
>> +
>> +			meta += geo->num_chk;
>> +			nchks -= geo->num_chk;
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> +out:
>> +	return 0;
>> +err:
>> +	kfree(blks);
>> +	return ret;
>> }
>> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_bb_tbl_fold);
>>
>> -int nvm_get_tgt_bb_tbl(struct nvm_tgt_dev *tgt_dev, struct ppa_addr ppa,
>> -		       u8 *blks)
>> [...]
> 
> 

Thanks, I've merged it into the patch.

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