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authorDennis Zhou (Facebook) <dennisszhou@gmail.com>2018-09-11 21:41:28 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-09-22 05:29:05 +0300
commit07b05bcc3213ac9f8c28c9d835b4bf3d5798cc60 (patch)
treeefab6cd44e334f64c1a98ae1b57a6894d9130c23 /include/linux
parent49f4c2dc2b5066e9211101c59cc0828e81d41614 (diff)
downloadlinux-07b05bcc3213ac9f8c28c9d835b4bf3d5798cc60.tar.xz
blkcg: convert blkg_lookup_create to find closest blkg
There are several scenarios where blkg_lookup_create can fail. Examples include the blkcg dying, request_queue is dying, or simply being OOM. At the end of the day, most handle this by simply falling back to the q->root_blkg and calling it a day. This patch implements the notion of closest blkg. During blkg_lookup_create, if it fails to create, return the closest blkg found or the q->root_blkg. blkg_try_get_closest is introduced and used during association so a bio is always attached to a blkg. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blk-cgroup.h14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h b/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
index cc0f238530f6..1fbff1bbb651 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
@@ -549,6 +549,20 @@ static inline struct blkcg_gq *blkg_try_get(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
return NULL;
}
+/**
+ * blkg_try_get_closest - try and get a blkg ref on the closet blkg
+ * @blkg: blkg to get
+ *
+ * This walks up the blkg tree to find the closest non-dying blkg and returns
+ * the blkg that it did association with as it may not be the passed in blkg.
+ */
+static inline struct blkcg_gq *blkg_try_get_closest(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
+{
+ while (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&blkg->refcnt))
+ blkg = blkg->parent;
+
+ return blkg;
+}
void __blkg_release_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu);