NVMe: Fix namespace removal deadlock

This patch makes nvme namespace removal lockless. It is up to the caller
to ensure no active namespace scanning is occuring. To ensure no scan
work occurs, the nvme pci driver adds a removing state to the controller
device to avoid queueing scan work during removal. The work is flushed
after setting the state, so no new scan work can be queued.

The lockless removal allows the driver to cleanup a namespace
request_queue if the controller fails during removal. Previously this
could deadlock trying to acquire the namespace mutex in order to handle
such events.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index 9407f2fa4487..4075fa9e0c34 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ struct nvme_ns {
 	bool ext;
 	u8 pi_type;
 	int type;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+#define NVME_NS_REMOVING 0
+
 	u64 mode_select_num_blocks;
 	u32 mode_select_block_len;
 };