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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>2011-05-11 21:36:38 -0400
committerMatthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>2011-11-04 15:53:03 -0400
commit184d2944cb3b92a2e8e1733c59d1e531ad6e924a (patch)
treee205b82e0ce14b846c1df01545dcce6f488b12a5
parentb77954cbddff28d55a36fad3c16f4daebb0f01df (diff)
NVMe: Add a few calling convention notes
For the benefit of reviewers, add comments to a few functions describing their calling context Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/nvme.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme.c b/drivers/block/nvme.c
index ddc21ba24a70..12062c108bd9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nvme.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nvme.c
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ static struct nvme_cmd_info *nvme_cmd_info(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq)
* the bottom two bits of the ctx pointer to store the handler ID.
* Passing in a pointer that's not 4-byte aligned will cause a BUG.
* We can change this if it becomes a problem.
+ *
+ * May be called with local interrupts disabled and the q_lock held,
+ * or with interrupts enabled and no locks held.
*/
static int alloc_cmdid(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, void *ctx, int handler,
unsigned timeout)
@@ -202,6 +205,9 @@ enum {
#define CMD_CTX_INVALID (0x314 + CMD_CTX_BASE)
#define CMD_CTX_FLUSH (0x318 + CMD_CTX_BASE)
+/*
+ * Called with local interrupts disabled and the q_lock held. May not sleep.
+ */
static unsigned long free_cmdid(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, int cmdid)
{
unsigned long data;
@@ -326,7 +332,7 @@ static void bio_completion(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, void *ctx,
}
}
-/* length is in bytes */
+/* length is in bytes. gfp flags indicates whether we may sleep. */
static struct nvme_prps *nvme_setup_prps(struct nvme_dev *dev,
struct nvme_common_command *cmd,
struct scatterlist *sg, int *len,
@@ -483,6 +489,9 @@ static int nvme_submit_flush_data(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, struct nvme_ns *ns)
return nvme_submit_flush(nvmeq, ns, cmdid);
}
+/*
+ * Called with local interrupts disabled and the q_lock held. May not sleep.
+ */
static int nvme_submit_bio_queue(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, struct nvme_ns *ns,
struct bio *bio)
{