[RFC PATCH 06/11] lightnvm: remove nested lock conflict with mm

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If a media manager tries to initialize it targets upon media manager
initialization, the media manager will need to know which target types
are available in LightNVM. The lists of which managers and target types
are available shares the same lock.

Therefore, on initialization, the nvm_lock is taken by LightNVM core,
which later leads to a deadlock when target types are enumerated by the
media manager.

Add an exclusive lock for target types to resolve this conflict.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index 8afb04c..04469e0 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched/sysctl.h>
 
 static LIST_HEAD(nvm_tgt_types);
+static DECLARE_RWSEM(nvm_tgtt_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(nvm_mgrs);
 static LIST_HEAD(nvm_devices);
 static DECLARE_RWSEM(nvm_lock);
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ struct nvm_tgt_type *nvm_find_target_type(const char *name, int lock)
 	struct nvm_tgt_type *tmp, *tt = NULL;
 
 	if (lock)
-		down_write(&nvm_lock);
+		down_write(&nvm_tgtt_lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry(tmp, &nvm_tgt_types, list)
 		if (!strcmp(name, tmp->name)) {
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ struct nvm_tgt_type *nvm_find_target_type(const char *name, int lock)
 		}
 
 	if (lock)
-		up_write(&nvm_lock);
+		up_write(&nvm_tgtt_lock);
 	return tt;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_find_target_type);
@@ -55,12 +56,12 @@ int nvm_register_tgt_type(struct nvm_tgt_type *tt)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	down_write(&nvm_lock);
+	down_write(&nvm_tgtt_lock);
 	if (nvm_find_target_type(tt->name, 0))
 		ret = -EEXIST;
 	else
 		list_add(&tt->list, &nvm_tgt_types);
-	up_write(&nvm_lock);
+	up_write(&nvm_tgtt_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.1.4

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