linux-kernel - [PATCH 20/24] block: RCU free request

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Message-Id: <1356726946-26037-21-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:35:42 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	lizefan@...wei.com, axboe@...nel.dk, vgoyal@...hat.com
Cc:	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ctalbott@...gle.com, rni@...gle.com,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 20/24] block: RCU free request_queue

RCU free request_queue so that blkcg_gq->q can be dereferenced under
RCU lock.  This will be used to implement hierarchical stats.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
---
 block/blk-sysfs.c      | 9 ++++++++-
 include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 7881477..6206a93 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -497,6 +497,13 @@ queue_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr,
 	return res;
 }
 
+static void blk_free_queue_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
+{
+	struct request_queue *q = container_of(rcu_head, struct request_queue,
+					       rcu_head);
+	kmem_cache_free(blk_requestq_cachep, q);
+}
+
 /**
  * blk_release_queue: - release a &struct request_queue when it is no longer needed
  * @kobj:    the kobj belonging to the request queue to be released
@@ -538,7 +545,7 @@ static void blk_release_queue(struct kobject *kobj)
 	bdi_destroy(&q->backing_dev_info);
 
 	ida_simple_remove(&blk_queue_ida, q->id);
-	kmem_cache_free(blk_requestq_cachep, q);
+	call_rcu(&q->rcu_head, blk_free_queue_rcu);
 }
 
 static const struct sysfs_ops queue_sysfs_ops = {
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index f94bc83..406343c 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
 #include <linux/bsg.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 
 #include <asm/scatterlist.h>
 
@@ -437,6 +438,7 @@ struct request_queue {
 	/* Throttle data */
 	struct throtl_data *td;
 #endif
+	struct rcu_head		rcu_head;
 };
 
 #define QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED	1	/* uses generic tag queueing */
-- 
1.8.0.2

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