libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Mon, 1 May 2017 17:00:02 +0000 (10:00 -0700)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Mon, 1 May 2017 17:00:02 +0000 (10:00 -0700)
commita3e9af95f794d000debc2a5ba3186ba85a6e115f
tree2450d68251fd90f469ca0a91e3ade228ca63f1b9
parent452bae0aede774f87bf56c28b6dd50b72c78986c
libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"

This continues the 4.11 status quo of disabling of error clearing from
the BTT I/O path. Toshi found that even though we have eliminated all
the libnvdimm sources of sleeping-while-atomic triggers, we still have
sleeping operations that will occur in the path to send the ACPI DSM to
the DIMM to clear the error:

 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:432
 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 13353, name: dd
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x86/0xc3
  ___might_sleep+0x17d/0x250
  __might_sleep+0x4a/0x80
  __kmalloc+0x1c0/0x2e0
  acpi_os_allocate_zeroed+0x2d/0x2f
  acpi_evaluate_object+0x59/0x3b1
  acpi_evaluate_dsm+0xbd/0x10c
  acpi_nfit_ctl+0x1ef/0x7c0 [nfit]
  ? nsio_rw_bytes+0x152/0x280
  nvdimm_clear_poison+0x77/0x140
  nsio_rw_bytes+0x18f/0x280
  btt_write_pg+0x1d4/0x3d0 [nd_btt]
  btt_make_request+0x119/0x2d0 [nd_btt]

A solution for tracking and handling media errors natively in the BTT is
needed.

Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Reported-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/nvdimm/claim.c