blkcg: move bulk of blkcg_gq release operations to the RCU callback

Currently, when the last reference of a blkcg_gq is put, all then
release operations sans the actual freeing happen directly in
blkg_put().  As blkg_put() may be called under queue_lock, all
pd_exit_fn()s may be too.  This makes it impossible for pd_exit_fn()s
to use del_timer_sync() on timers which grab the queue_lock which is
an irq-safe lock due to the deadlock possibility described in the
comment on top of del_timer_sync().

This can be easily avoided by perfoming the release operations in the
RCU callback instead of directly from blkg_put().  This patch moves
the blkcg_gq release operations to the RCU callback.

As this leaves __blkg_release() with only call_rcu() invocation,
blkg_rcu_free() is renamed to __blkg_release_rcu(), exported and
call_rcu() invocation is now done directly from blkg_put() instead of
going through __blkg_release() which is removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
index e15f731d2cdd..8056c03a3382 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ static inline void blkg_get(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
         blkg->refcnt++;
 }
 
-void __blkg_release(struct blkcg_gq *blkg);
+void __blkg_release_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu);
 
 /**
  * blkg_put - put a blkg reference
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static inline void blkg_put(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
         lockdep_assert_held(blkg->q->queue_lock);
         WARN_ON_ONCE(blkg->refcnt <= 0);
         if (!--blkg->refcnt)
-                __blkg_release(blkg);
+                call_rcu(&blkg->rcu_head, __blkg_release_rcu);
 }
 
 struct blkcg_gq *__blkg_lookup(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct request_queue *q,