Currently io_context has an atomic_t(32-bit) as refcount. In the case of
cfq, for each device against whcih a task does I/O, a reference to the
io_context would be taken. And when there are multiple process sharing
io_contexts(CLONE_IO) would also have a reference to the same io_context.
Theoretically the possible maximum number of processes sharing the same
io_context + the number of disks/cfq_data referring to the same io_context
can overflow the 32-bit counter on a very high-end machine.
Even though it is an improbable case, let us make it atomic_long_t.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
put_io_context() drops the RCU read lock before calling into cfq_dtor(),
however we need to hold off freeing there before grabbing and
dereferencing the first object on the list.
So extend the rcu_read_lock() scope to cover the calling of cfq_dtor(),
and optimize cfq_free_io_context() to use a new variant for
call_for_each_cic() that assumes the RCU read lock is already held.
Hit in the wild by Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It's cumbersome to browse a radix tree from start to finish, especially
since we modify keys when a process exits. So add a hlist for the single
purpose of browsing over all known cfq_io_contexts, used for exit,
io prio change, etc.
This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9948
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
It blindly copies everything in the io_context, including the lock.
That doesn't work so well for either lock ordering or lockdep.
There seems zero point in swapping io contexts on a request to request
merge, so the best point of action is to just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Nikanth Karthikesan