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authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2017-02-14 08:16:41 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2017-02-14 08:16:41 -0700
commitd1a987f35ebf859a771ac530e95a89933b6fcce8 (patch)
tree15b2ba0c3125623a5b2ed4fb48a5090ca58a6a1b /block
parentc5c9b26ee5f1295c77d8f2ff5f804ed6c0b07cc4 (diff)
downloadlinux-d1a987f35ebf859a771ac530e95a89933b6fcce8.tar.bz2
elevator: fix loading wrong elevator type for blk-mq devices
The old elevator= boot parameter blindly attempts to load the same scheduler for mq and !mq devices, leading to a crash if we specify the wrong one. Ensure that we only apply this boot parameter to old !mq devices. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/elevator.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index ef7f59469acc..b2a55167f0c2 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -207,11 +207,12 @@ int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
}
/*
- * Use the default elevator specified by config boot param or
- * config option. Don't try to load modules as we could be running
- * off async and request_module() isn't allowed from async.
+ * Use the default elevator specified by config boot param for
+ * non-mq devices, or by config option. Don't try to load modules
+ * as we could be running off async and request_module() isn't
+ * allowed from async.
*/
- if (!e && *chosen_elevator) {
+ if (!e && !q->mq_ops && *chosen_elevator) {
e = elevator_get(chosen_elevator, false);
if (!e)
printk(KERN_ERR "I/O scheduler %s not found\n",