lightnvm: manage open and closed blocks separately

LightNVM targets need to know the state of the flash block when doing
flash optimizations. An example is implementing a write buffer to
respect the flash page size. Currently, block state is not accounted
for; the media manager only differentiates among free, bad and in-use
blocks.

This patch adds the logic in the generic media manager to enable
targets manage blocks into open and close separately, and it implements
such management in rrpc. It also adds a set of flags to describe the
state of the block (open, closed, free, bad).

In order to avoid taking two locks (nvm_lun and rrpc_lun) consecutively,
we introduce lockless get_/put_block primitives so that the open and
close list locks and future common logic is handled within the nvm_lun
lock.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
index dc83e010d084..e5e396338319 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/core.c
@@ -167,6 +167,20 @@ static struct nvm_dev *nvm_find_nvm_dev(const char *name)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+struct nvm_block *nvm_get_blk_unlocked(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct nvm_lun *lun,
+							unsigned long flags)
+{
+	return dev->mt->get_blk_unlocked(dev, lun, flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_get_blk_unlocked);
+
+/* Assumes that all valid pages have already been moved on release to bm */
+void nvm_put_blk_unlocked(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct nvm_block *blk)
+{
+	return dev->mt->put_blk_unlocked(dev, blk);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvm_put_blk_unlocked);
+
 struct nvm_block *nvm_get_blk(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct nvm_lun *lun,
 							unsigned long flags)
 {