linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] bdi: Add bdi->id

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Message-Id: <20190806160102.11366694af6b56d9c4ca6ea3@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 6 Aug 2019 16:01:02 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, jack@...e.cz, hannes@...xchg.org,
        mhocko@...nel.org, vdavydov.dev@...il.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, guro@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] bdi: Add bdi->id

On Sat,  3 Aug 2019 07:01:53 -0700 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> There currently is no way to universally identify and lookup a bdi
> without holding a reference and pointer to it.  This patch adds an
> non-recycling bdi->id and implements bdi_get_by_id() which looks up
> bdis by their ids.  This will be used by memcg foreign inode flushing.

Why is the id non-recycling?  Presumably to address some
lifetime/lookup issues, but what are they?

Why was the IDR code not used?

> I left bdi_list alone for simplicity and because while rb_tree does
> support rcu assignment it doesn't seem to guarantee lossless walk when
> walk is racing aginst tree rebalance operations.
> 
> ...
>
> +/**
> + * bdi_get_by_id - lookup and get bdi from its id
> + * @id: bdi id to lookup
> + *
> + * Find bdi matching @id and get it.  Returns NULL if the matching bdi
> + * doesn't exist or is already unregistered.
> + */
> +struct backing_dev_info *bdi_get_by_id(u64 id)
> +{
> +	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = NULL;
> +	struct rb_node **p;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irq(&bdi_lock);

Why irq-safe?  Everywhere else uses spin_lock_bh(&bdi_lock).

> +	p = bdi_lookup_rb_node(id, NULL);
> +	if (*p) {
> +		bdi = rb_entry(*p, struct backing_dev_info, rb_node);
> +		bdi_get(bdi);
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock_irq(&bdi_lock);
> +
> +	return bdi;
> +}
> +
>
> ...
>