linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: access and cache blkg data only when safe

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 22:20:01 +0200
From:   Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux-Kernal <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        broonie@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: access and cache blkg data only when safe


> Il giorno 19 mag 2017, alle ore 16:37, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> ha scritto:
> 
> On 05/19/2017 02:39 AM, Paolo Valente wrote:
>> @@ -692,8 +725,7 @@ void bfq_pd_offline(struct blkg_policy_data *pd)
>> 		/*
>> 		 * The idle tree may still contain bfq_queues belonging
>> 		 * to exited task because they never migrated to a different
>> -		 * cgroup from the one being destroyed now.  No one else
>> -		 * can access them so it's safe to act without any lock.
>> ++                * cgroup from the one being destroyed now.
>> 		 */
>> 		bfq_flush_idle_tree(st);
>> 
> 
> Looks like an extra '+' snuck into that hunk.
> 

Yes, sorry.  Before possibly submitting a fixed version, I'll wait for
a reply on my previous email in this thread, as the issue now seems
more serious to me, and affecting CFQ too.

Thanks,
Paolo

> -- 
> Jens Axboe
>