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SubjectRe: [PATCH] blkcg: not hold blkcg lock when deactivating policy.
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> Il giorno 17 apr 2018, alle ore 09:10, Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn> ha scritto:
>
> As described in the comment of blkcg_activate_policy(),
> *Update of each blkg is protected by both queue and blkcg locks so
> that holding either lock and testing blkcg_policy_enabled() is
> always enough for dereferencing policy data.*
> with queue lock held, there is no need to hold blkcg lock in
> blkcg_deactivate_policy(). Similar case is in
> blkcg_activate_policy(), which has removed holding of blkcg lock in
> commit 4c55f4f9ad3001ac1fefdd8d8ca7641d18558e23.
>

Hi,
by chance, did you check whether this may cause problems with bfq,
being the latter not protected by the queue lock as cfq?

Thanks,
Paolo

> Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>
> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> ---
> block/blk-cgroup.c | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> index c2033a2..2b7f8d0 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> @@ -1367,17 +1367,12 @@ void blkcg_deactivate_policy(struct request_queue *q,
> __clear_bit(pol->plid, q->blkcg_pols);
>
> list_for_each_entry(blkg, &q->blkg_list, q_node) {
> - /* grab blkcg lock too while removing @pd from @blkg */
> - spin_lock(&blkg->blkcg->lock);
> -
> if (blkg->pd[pol->plid]) {
> if (pol->pd_offline_fn)
> pol->pd_offline_fn(blkg->pd[pol->plid]);
> pol->pd_free_fn(blkg->pd[pol->plid]);
> blkg->pd[pol->plid] = NULL;
> }
> -
> - spin_unlock(&blkg->blkcg->lock);
> }
>
> spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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