Merge tag 'for-4.18/block-20180603' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - clean up how we pass around gfp_t and
   blk_mq_req_flags_t (Christoph)

 - prepare us to defer scheduler attach (Christoph)

 - clean up drivers handling of bounce buffers (Christoph)

 - fix timeout handling corner cases (Christoph/Bart/Keith)

 - bcache fixes (Coly)

 - prep work for bcachefs and some block layer optimizations (Kent).

 - convert users of bio_sets to using embedded structs (Kent).

 - fixes for the BFQ io scheduler (Paolo/Davide/Filippo)

 - lightnvm fixes and improvements (Matias, with contributions from Hans
   and Javier)

 - adding discard throttling to blk-wbt (me)

 - sbitmap blk-mq-tag handling (me/Omar/Ming).

 - remove the sparc jsflash block driver, acked by DaveM.

 - Kyber scheduler improvement from Jianchao, making it more friendly
   wrt merging.

 - conversion of symbolic proc permissions to octal, from Joe Perches.
   Previously the block parts were a mix of both.

 - nbd fixes (Josef and Kevin Vigor)

 - unify how we handle the various kinds of timestamps that the block
   core and utility code uses (Omar)

 - three NVMe pull requests from Keith and Christoph, bringing AEN to
   feature completeness, file backed namespaces, cq/sq lock split, and
   various fixes

 - various little fixes and improvements all over the map

* tag 'for-4.18/block-20180603' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (196 commits)
  blk-mq: update nr_requests when switching to 'none' scheduler
  block: don't use blocking queue entered for recursive bio submits
  dm-crypt: fix warning in shutdown path
  lightnvm: pblk: take bitmap alloc. out of critical section
  lightnvm: pblk: kick writer on new flush points
  lightnvm: pblk: only try to recover lines with written smeta
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary bio_get/put
  lightnvm: pblk: add possibility to set write buffer size manually
  lightnvm: fix partial read error path
  lightnvm: proper error handling for pblk_bio_add_pages
  lightnvm: pblk: fix smeta write error path
  lightnvm: pblk: garbage collect lines with failed writes
  lightnvm: pblk: rework write error recovery path
  lightnvm: pblk: remove dead function
  lightnvm: pass flag on graceful teardown to targets
  lightnvm: pblk: check for chunk size before allocating it
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary argument
  lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary indirection
  lightnvm: pblk: return NVM_ error on failed submission
  lightnvm: pblk: warn in case of corrupted write buffer
  ...

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 7441bd93b732..8fe3ebd6ac00 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ static void wb_exit(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
  * protected.
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgwb_lock);
+static struct workqueue_struct *cgwb_release_wq;
 
 /**
  * wb_congested_get_create - get or create a wb_congested
@@ -522,7 +523,7 @@ static void cgwb_release(struct percpu_ref *refcnt)
 {
 	struct bdi_writeback *wb = container_of(refcnt, struct bdi_writeback,
 						refcnt);
-	schedule_work(&wb->release_work);
+	queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work);
 }
 
 static void cgwb_kill(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
@@ -784,6 +785,21 @@ static void cgwb_bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 	spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock);
 }
 
+static int __init cgwb_init(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * There can be many concurrent release work items overwhelming
+	 * system_wq.  Put them in a separate wq and limit concurrency.
+	 * There's no point in executing many of these in parallel.
+	 */
+	cgwb_release_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgwb_release", 0, 1);
+	if (!cgwb_release_wq)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+subsys_initcall(cgwb_init);
+
 #else	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
 
 static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)