linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] blkcg: perpcu_ref init/exit should be done from blkg

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Message-Id: <20190613223041.606735-4-tj@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:30:39 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk, jbacik@...com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, dennis@...nel.org, jack@...e.cz,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] blkcg: perpcu_ref init/exit should be done from blkg_alloc/free()

blkg alloc is performed as a separate step from the rest of blkg
creation so that GFP_KERNEL allocations can be used when creating
blkgs from configuration file writes because otherwise user actions
may fail due to failures of opportunistic GFP_NOWAIT allocations.

While making blkgs use percpu_ref, 7fcf2b033b84 ("blkcg: change blkg
reference counting to use percpu_ref") incorrectly added unconditional
opportunistic percpu_ref_init() to blkg_create() breaking this
guarantee.

This patch moves percpu_ref_init() to blkg_alloc() so makes it use
@gfp_mask that blkg_alloc() is called with.  Also, percpu_ref_exit()
is moved to blkg_free() for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Fixes: 7fcf2b033b84 ("blkcg: change blkg reference counting to use percpu_ref")
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
---
 block/blk-cgroup.c | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index e4715b35d42c..04d286934c5e 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static void blkg_free(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
 
 	blkg_rwstat_exit(&blkg->stat_ios);
 	blkg_rwstat_exit(&blkg->stat_bytes);
+	percpu_ref_exit(&blkg->refcnt);
 	kfree(blkg);
 }
 
@@ -86,8 +87,6 @@ static void __blkg_release(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 {
 	struct blkcg_gq *blkg = container_of(rcu, struct blkcg_gq, rcu_head);
 
-	percpu_ref_exit(&blkg->refcnt);
-
 	/* release the blkcg and parent blkg refs this blkg has been holding */
 	css_put(&blkg->blkcg->css);
 	if (blkg->parent)
@@ -132,6 +131,9 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_alloc(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct request_queue *q,
 	if (!blkg)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (percpu_ref_init(&blkg->refcnt, blkg_release, 0, gfp_mask))
+		goto err_free;
+
 	if (blkg_rwstat_init(&blkg->stat_bytes, gfp_mask) ||
 	    blkg_rwstat_init(&blkg->stat_ios, gfp_mask))
 		goto err_free;
@@ -244,11 +246,6 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
 		blkg_get(blkg->parent);
 	}
 
-	ret = percpu_ref_init(&blkg->refcnt, blkg_release, 0,
-			      GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
-	if (ret)
-		goto err_cancel_ref;
-
 	/* invoke per-policy init */
 	for (i = 0; i < BLKCG_MAX_POLS; i++) {
 		struct blkcg_policy *pol = blkcg_policy[i];
@@ -281,8 +278,6 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
 	blkg_put(blkg);
 	return ERR_PTR(ret);
 
-err_cancel_ref:
-	percpu_ref_exit(&blkg->refcnt);
 err_put_congested:
 	wb_congested_put(wb_congested);
 err_put_css:
-- 
2.17.1