linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 4/5] mm/swapfile: refcount block and queue before using blkcg_schedule

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Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:34:54 +0000
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        jack@...e.cz, ming.lei@...hat.com, nstange@...e.de,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.com, yukuai3@...wei.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 4/5] mm/swapfile: refcount block and queue before using
 blkcg_schedule_throttle()

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 08:02:59PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-04-09 14:45, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> >  		if (si->bdev) {
> > +			bdev = bdgrab(si->bdev);
> > +			if (!bdev)
> > +				continue;
> > +			/*
> > +			 * By adding our own bdgrab() we ensure the queue
> > +			 * sticks around until disk_release(), and so we ensure
> > +			 * our release of the request_queue does not happen in
> > +			 * atomic context.
> > +			 */
> >  			blkcg_schedule_throttle(bdev_get_queue(si->bdev),
> >  						true);
> 
> How about changing the si->bdev argument of blkcg_schedule_throttle()
> into bdev?

Sure, thanks!

  Luis