Commit 361d889f authored by Javier González's avatar Javier González Committed by Jens Axboe

lightnvm: pblk: add comments wrt locking in recovery path

pblk's recovery path is single threaded and therefore a number of
assumptions regarding concurrency can be made. To avoid confusion, make
this explicit with a couple of comments in the code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJavier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent fde201a4
......@@ -1276,6 +1276,7 @@ static int pblk_line_prepare(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line)
return 0;
}
/* Line allocations in the recovery path are always single threaded */
int pblk_line_recov_alloc(struct pblk *pblk, struct pblk_line *line)
{
struct pblk_line_mgmt *l_mg = &pblk->l_mg;
......
......@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
* General Public License for more details.
*
* pblk-recovery.c - pblk's recovery path
*
* The L2P recovery path is single threaded as the L2P table is updated in order
* following the line sequence ID.
*/
#include "pblk.h"
......
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