This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme: introduce helper function to get ctrl state to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nvme-introduce-helper-function-to-get-ctrl-state.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 04d188b41ed7a6cf98448ea6903336082808b85e Author: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 30 08:13:09 2023 -0700 nvme: introduce helper function to get ctrl state [ Upstream commit 5c687c287c46fadb14644091823298875a5216aa ] The controller state is typically written by another CPU, so reading it should ensure no optimizations are taken. This is a repeated pattern in the driver, so start with adding a convenience function that returns the controller state with READ_ONCE(). Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h index c3e4d9b6f9c0..1e56fe8e8157 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h @@ -354,6 +354,11 @@ struct nvme_ctrl { struct nvme_fault_inject fault_inject; }; +static inline enum nvme_ctrl_state nvme_ctrl_state(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl) +{ + return READ_ONCE(ctrl->state); +} + enum nvme_iopolicy { NVME_IOPOLICY_NUMA, NVME_IOPOLICY_RR,