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Damien Le Moal authored
Simultaneously writing to a sequential zone of a zoned block device from multiple contexts requires mutual exclusion for BIO issuing to ensure that writes happen sequentially. However, even for a well behaved user correctly implementing such synchronization, BIO plugging may interfere and result in BIOs from the different contextx to be reordered if plugging is done outside of the mutual exclusion section, e.g. the plug was started by a function higher in the call chain than the function issuing BIOs. Context A Context B | blk_start_plug() | ... | seq_write_zone() | mutex_lock(zone) | bio-0->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-0) | submit_bio(bio-0) | bio-1->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-1) | submit_bio(bio-1) | mutex_unlock(zone) | return | -----------------------> | seq_write_zone() | mutex_lock(zone) ...
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