From: Javier González <jg@lightnvm.io>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:38:55 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: lightnvm: do not protect block 0
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8a3c95ab385fb98621455807ae52b4454192f8c5;p=linux-beck.git

lightnvm: do not protect block 0

Device blocks should be marked by the device and considered as bad
blocks by the media manager. Thus, do not make assumptions on which
blocks are going to be used by the device. In doing so we might lose
valid blocks from the free list.

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

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c b/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
index 730d7361f870..a7e17faea2cd 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/gennvm.c
@@ -371,12 +371,6 @@ static int gen_blocks_init(struct nvm_dev *dev, struct gen_dev *gn)
 			block->lun = &lun->vlun;
 			block->id = cur_block_id++;
 
-			/* First block is reserved for device */
-			if (unlikely(lun_iter == 0 && blk_iter == 0)) {
-				lun->vlun.nr_free_blocks--;
-				continue;
-			}
-
 			list_add_tail(&block->list, &lun->free_list);
 		}