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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-04-13 14:50:53 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-04-20 10:06:06 +0200
commit80fd99792b0b9f162abdf3da12fb10eb9eb5f321 (patch)
tree3273581c76d9bcad18f0668f6707be9323e650fb /block/blk-core.c
parentda8b066262e12d1d0a3b1e6d3486e500169bf730 (diff)
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blkcg: make sure blkg_lookup() returns %NULL if @q is bypassing
Currently, blkg_lookup() doesn't check @q bypass state. This patch updates blk_queue_bypass_start() to do synchronize_rcu() before returning and updates blkg_lookup() to check blk_queue_bypass() and return %NULL if bypassing. This ensures blkg_lookup() returns %NULL if @q is bypassing. This is to guarantee that nobody is accessing policy data while @q is bypassing, which is necessary to allow replacing blkio_cgroup->pd[] in place on policy [de]activation. v2: Added more comments explaining bypass guarantees as suggested by Vivek. v3: Added more comments explaining why there's no synchronize_rcu() in blk_cleanup_queue() as suggested by Vivek. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-core.c')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-core.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 991c1d6ef245..f2db628aa509 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ void blk_drain_queue(struct request_queue *q, bool drain_all)
* In bypass mode, only the dispatch FIFO queue of @q is used. This
* function makes @q enter bypass mode and drains all requests which were
* throttled or issued before. On return, it's guaranteed that no request
- * is being throttled or has ELVPRIV set.
+ * is being throttled or has ELVPRIV set and blk_queue_bypass() %true
+ * inside queue or RCU read lock.
*/
void blk_queue_bypass_start(struct request_queue *q)
{
@@ -426,6 +427,8 @@ void blk_queue_bypass_start(struct request_queue *q)
spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
blk_drain_queue(q, false);
+ /* ensure blk_queue_bypass() is %true inside RCU read lock */
+ synchronize_rcu();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_queue_bypass_start);
@@ -462,7 +465,15 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(struct request_queue *q)
spin_lock_irq(lock);
- /* dead queue is permanently in bypass mode till released */
+ /*
+ * Dead queue is permanently in bypass mode till released. Note
+ * that, unlike blk_queue_bypass_start(), we aren't performing
+ * synchronize_rcu() after entering bypass mode to avoid the delay
+ * as some drivers create and destroy a lot of queues while
+ * probing. This is still safe because blk_release_queue() will be
+ * called only after the queue refcnt drops to zero and nothing,
+ * RCU or not, would be traversing the queue by then.
+ */
q->bypass_depth++;
queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_BYPASS, q);