Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: Call cgroup_path only under cgroup lock

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 14:12:14 EST


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:06:53PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello, Sasha.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:01:18PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> Since we can't keep rcu read lock during blkg_alloc(), we currently
> >> call cgroup_path() without any locks at all.
> >>
> >> This patch adds cgroup locking before calling cgroup_path.
> >>
> >> This also fixes a lockdep warning on boot.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Which branch is this against?  There's already pending stat update
> > patch from Vivek which fix this problem along with the percpu
> > allocation problem.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I've fixed it for linux-next.

Jens, the pending stats patchset should fix this problem too. Can you
please put them on top of other blkcg updates?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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