This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

lightnvm: pblk: fix changing GC group list for a line

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: lightnvm-pblk-fix-changing-gc-group-list-for-a-line.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 13:29:00 CET 2017

From: Rakesh Pandit rakesh@tuxera.com Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:46:28 +0200 Subject: lightnvm: pblk: fix changing GC group list for a line

From: Rakesh Pandit rakesh@tuxera.com

[ Upstream commit 27b978725d895e704aab44b99242a0514485d798 ]

pblk_line_gc_list seems to had a bug since the introduction of pblk in getting GC list for a line. In b20ba1bc7 while redesigning the GC algorithm, the naming for the GC thresholds was altered, but the values for high_thrs and mid_thrs were not. The result is that when moving to the GC lists, the mid threshold is never evaluated.

Fixes: a4bd217b4("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target") Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit rakesh@tuxera.com Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling m@bjorling.me Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c @@ -681,8 +681,8 @@ static int pblk_lines_init(struct pblk * lm->blk_bitmap_len = BITS_TO_LONGS(geo->nr_luns) * sizeof(long); lm->sec_bitmap_len = BITS_TO_LONGS(lm->sec_per_line) * sizeof(long); lm->lun_bitmap_len = BITS_TO_LONGS(geo->nr_luns) * sizeof(long); - lm->high_thrs = lm->sec_per_line / 2; - lm->mid_thrs = lm->sec_per_line / 4; + lm->mid_thrs = lm->sec_per_line / 2; + lm->high_thrs = lm->sec_per_line / 4; lm->meta_distance = (geo->nr_luns / 2) * pblk->min_write_pgs;

/* Calculate necessary pages for smeta. See comment over struct

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rakesh@tuxera.com are

queue-4.14/lightnvm-pblk-protect-line-bitmap-while-submitting-meta-io.patch queue-4.14/lightnvm-pblk-fix-changing-gc-group-list-for-a-line.patch