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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
blkcg_pol_mutex primarily protects the blkcg_policy array. It also protects cgroup file type [un]registration during policy addition / removal. This puts blkcg_pol_mutex outside cgroup internal synchronization and in turn makes it impossible to grab from blkcg's cgroup methods as that leads to cyclic dependency. Another problematic dependency arising from this is through cgroup interface file deactivation. Removing a cftype requires removing all files of the type which in turn involves draining all on-going invocations of the file methods. This means that an interface file implementation can't grab blkcg_pol_mutex as draining can lead to AA deadlock. blkcg_reset_stats() is already in this situation. It currently trylocks blkcg_pol_mutex and then unwinds and retries the whole operation on failure, which is cumbersome at best. It has a lengthy comment explaining how cgroup internal synchronization is involved and expected to be updated but as explained above this doesn't need cgroup internal locking to deadlock. It's a self-contained AA deadlock. The described circular dependencies can be easily broken by moving cftype [un]registration out of blkcg_pol_mutex and protect them with an outer mutex. This patch introduces blkcg_pol_register_mutex which wraps entire policy [un]registration including cftype operations and shrinks blkcg_pol_mutex critical section. This also makes the trylock dancing in blkcg_reset_stats() unnecessary. Removed. This patch is necessary for the following blkcg_policy_data allocation bug fixes. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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