Merge tag 'for-4.18/block-20180603' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - clean up how we pass around gfp_t and
   blk_mq_req_flags_t (Christoph)

 - prepare us to defer scheduler attach (Christoph)

 - clean up drivers handling of bounce buffers (Christoph)

 - fix timeout handling corner cases (Christoph/Bart/Keith)

 - bcache fixes (Coly)

 - prep work for bcachefs and some block layer optimizations (Kent).

 - convert users of bio_sets to using embedded structs (Kent).

 - fixes for the BFQ io scheduler (Paolo/Davide/Filippo)

 - lightnvm fixes and improvements (Matias, with contributions from Hans
   and Javier)

 - adding discard throttling to blk-wbt (me)

 - sbitmap blk-mq-tag handling (me/Omar/Ming).

 - remove the sparc jsflash block driver, acked by DaveM.

 - Kyber scheduler improvement from Jianchao, making it more friendly
   wrt merging.

 - conversion of symbolic proc permissions to octal, from Joe Perches.
   Previously the block parts were a mix of both.

 - nbd fixes (Josef and Kevin Vigor)

 - unify how we handle the various kinds of timestamps that the block
   core and utility code uses (Omar)

 - three NVMe pull requests from Keith and Christoph, bringing AEN to
   feature completeness, file backed namespaces, cq/sq lock split, and
   various fixes

 - various little fixes and improvements all over the map

* tag 'for-4.18/block-20180603' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (196 commits)
  blk-mq: update nr_requests when switching to 'none' scheduler
  block: don't use blocking queue entered for recursive bio submits
  dm-crypt: fix warning in shutdown path
  lightnvm: pblk: take bitmap alloc. out of critical section
  lightnvm: pblk: kick writer on new flush points
  lightnvm: pblk: only try to recover lines with written smeta
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary bio_get/put
  lightnvm: pblk: add possibility to set write buffer size manually
  lightnvm: fix partial read error path
  lightnvm: proper error handling for pblk_bio_add_pages
  lightnvm: pblk: fix smeta write error path
  lightnvm: pblk: garbage collect lines with failed writes
  lightnvm: pblk: rework write error recovery path
  lightnvm: pblk: remove dead function
  lightnvm: pass flag on graceful teardown to targets
  lightnvm: pblk: check for chunk size before allocating it
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary argument
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary indirection
  lightnvm: pblk: return NVM_ error on failed submission
  lightnvm: pblk: warn in case of corrupted write buffer
  ...

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-cache.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-cache.c
index 29a23111b31c..b1c6d7eb6115 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-cache.c
@@ -44,13 +44,15 @@ retry:
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (unlikely(!bio_has_data(bio)))
-		goto out;
-
 	pblk_ppa_set_empty(&w_ctx.ppa);
 	w_ctx.flags = flags;
-	if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH)
+	if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_PREFLUSH) {
 		w_ctx.flags |= PBLK_FLUSH_ENTRY;
+		pblk_write_kick(pblk);
+	}
+
+	if (unlikely(!bio_has_data(bio)))
+		goto out;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_entries; i++) {
 		void *data = bio_data(bio);