linux/drivers/dax
Stefan Hajnoczi b7751410c1 device-dax: avoid hang on error before devm_memremap_pages()
dax_pmem_percpu_exit() waits for dax_pmem_percpu_release() to invoke the
dax_pmem->cmp completion.  Unfortunately this approach to cleaning up
the percpu_ref only works after devm_memremap_pages() was successful.

If devm_add_action_or_reset() or devm_memremap_pages() fails,
dax_pmem_percpu_release() is not invoked.  Therefore
dax_pmem_percpu_exit() hangs waiting for the completion:

  rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, dax_pmem_percpu_exit,
  				&dax_pmem->ref);
  if (rc)
  	return rc;

  dax_pmem->pgmap.ref = &dax_pmem->ref;
  addr = devm_memremap_pages(dev, &dax_pmem->pgmap);

Avoid the hang by calling percpu_ref_exit() in the error paths instead
of going through dax_pmem_percpu_exit().

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
2018-07-31 17:05:42 -07:00
..
dax-private.h Merge branch 'for-4.12/dax' into libnvdimm-for-next 2017-05-04 23:38:43 -07:00
dax.h pmem: add dax_operations support 2017-04-19 15:14:35 -07:00
device-dax.h device-dax: fix sysfs duplicate warnings 2017-07-18 17:49:14 -07:00
device.c dev-dax: check_vma: ratelimit dev_info-s 2018-06-28 18:23:36 -07:00
Kconfig dax: introduce CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER 2018-04-03 05:41:19 -07:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
pmem.c device-dax: avoid hang on error before devm_memremap_pages() 2018-07-31 17:05:42 -07:00
super.c dax/super: Do not request a pointer kaddr when not required 2018-07-30 09:39:28 -07:00