From 9f13ef678efd977487fc0c2e489f17c9a8c67a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:15:21 -0800 Subject: blkcg: use double locking instead of RCU for blkg synchronization blkgs are chained from both blkcgs and request_queues and thus subjected to two locks - blkcg->lock and q->queue_lock. As both blkcg and q can go away anytime, locking during removal is tricky. It's currently solved by wrapping removal inside RCU, which makes the synchronization complex. There are three locks to worry about - the outer RCU, q lock and blkcg lock, and it leads to nasty subtle complications like conditional synchronize_rcu() on queue exit paths. For all other paths, blkcg lock is naturally nested inside q lock and the only exception is blkcg removal path, which is a very cold path and can be implemented as clumsy but conceptually-simple reverse double lock dancing. This patch updates blkg removal path such that blkgs are removed while holding both q and blkcg locks, which is trivial for request queue exit path - blkg_destroy_all(). The blkcg removal path, blkiocg_pre_destroy(), implements reverse double lock dancing essentially identical to ioc_release_fn(). This simplifies blkg locking - no half-dead blkgs to worry about. Now unnecessary RCU annotations will be removed by the next patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/blk-cgroup.h | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/blk-cgroup.h') diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h index 6e8ee86a2870..df73040a6a5f 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.h +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h @@ -380,7 +380,6 @@ static inline void blkiocg_set_start_empty_time(struct blkio_group *blkg, extern struct blkio_cgroup blkio_root_cgroup; extern struct blkio_cgroup *cgroup_to_blkio_cgroup(struct cgroup *cgroup); extern struct blkio_cgroup *task_blkio_cgroup(struct task_struct *tsk); -extern int blkiocg_del_blkio_group(struct blkio_group *blkg); extern struct blkio_group *blkg_lookup(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg, struct request_queue *q); struct blkio_group *blkg_lookup_create(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg, @@ -416,9 +415,6 @@ cgroup_to_blkio_cgroup(struct cgroup *cgroup) { return NULL; } static inline struct blkio_cgroup * task_blkio_cgroup(struct task_struct *tsk) { return NULL; } -static inline int -blkiocg_del_blkio_group(struct blkio_group *blkg) { return 0; } - static inline struct blkio_group *blkg_lookup(struct blkio_cgroup *blkcg, void *key) { return NULL; } static inline void blkiocg_update_timeslice_used(struct blkio_group *blkg, -- cgit v1.2.3