blkcg: kill the mind-bending blkg->dev

blkg->dev is dev_t recording the device number of the block device for
the associated request_queue.  It is used to identify the associated
block device when printing out configuration or stats.

This is redundant to begin with.  A blkg is an association between a
cgroup and a request_queue and it of course is possible to reach
request_queue from blkg and synchronization conventions are in place
for safe q dereferencing, so this shouldn't be necessary from the
beginning.  Furthermore, it's initialized by sscanf()ing the device
name of backing_dev_info.  The mind boggles.

Anyways, if blkg is visible under rcu lock, we *know* that the
associated request_queue hasn't gone away yet and its bdi is
registered and alive - blkg can't be created for request_queue which
hasn't been fully initialized and it can't go away before blkg is
removed.

Let stat and conf read functions get device name from
blkg->q->backing_dev_info.dev and pass it down to printing functions
and remove blkg->dev.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
index 9a5c68d7cc92..7ebecf6ea8f1 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
@@ -166,8 +166,6 @@ struct blkio_group {
         unsigned short blkcg_id;
         /* Store cgroup path */
         char path[128];
-        /* The device MKDEV(major, minor), this group has been created for */
-        dev_t dev;
         /* policy which owns this blk group */
         enum blkio_policy_id plid;