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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2015-07-02 08:44:34 -0600
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-07-02 08:46:00 -0600
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writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback
52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks") made bdi (backing_dev_info) host per-cgroup wb's (bdi_writeback's). As the congested state needs to be per-wb and referenced from blkcg side and multiple wbs, the patch made all non-root cong's (bdi_writeback_congested's) reference counted and indexed on bdi. When a bdi is destroyed, cgwb_bdi_destroy() tries to drain all non-root cong's; however, this can hang indefinitely because wb's can also be referenced from blkcg_gq's which are destroyed after bdi destruction is complete. To fix the bug, bdi destruction will be updated to not wait for cong's to drain, which naturally means that cong's may outlive the associated bdi. This is fine for non-root cong's but is problematic for the root cong's which are embedded in their bdi's as they may end up getting dereferenced after the containing bdi's are freed. This patch makes root cong's behave the same as non-root cong's. They are no longer embedded in their bdi's but allocated separately during bdi initialization, indexed and reference counted the same way. * As cong handling is the same for all wb's, wb->congested initialization is moved into wb_init(). * When !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK, there was no indexing or refcnting. bdi->wb_congested is now a pointer pointing to the root cong allocated during bdi init and minimal refcnting operations are implemented. * The above makes root wb init paths diverge depending on CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK. root wb init is moved to cgwb_bdi_init(). This patch in itself shouldn't cause any consequential behavior differences but prepares for the actual fix. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jon Christopherson <jon@jons.org> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100681 Tested-by: Jon Christopherson <jon@jons.org> Added <linux/slab.h> include to backing-dev.h for kfree() definition. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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