From b5f2954d30c77649bce9c27e7a0a94299d9cfdf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Zhou Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 17:24:10 -0400 Subject: blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series This reverts a series committed earlier due to null pointer exception bug report in [1]. It seems there are edge case interactions that I did not consider and will need some time to understand what causes the adverse interactions. The original series can be found in [2] with a follow up series in [3]. [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg20719.html [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180911184137.35897-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020185612.51587-1-dennis@kernel.org/ This reverts the following commits: d459d853c2ed, b2c3fa546705, 101246ec02b5, b3b9f24f5fcc, e2b0989954ae, f0fcb3ec89f3, c839e7a03f92, bdc2491708c4, 74b7c02a9bc1, 5bf9a1f3b4ef, a7b39b4e961c, 07b05bcc3213, 49f4c2dc2b50, 27e6fa996c53 Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index caf36105a1c7..184193bcb262 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1857,10 +1857,8 @@ following two functions. wbc_init_bio(@wbc, @bio) Should be called for each bio carrying writeback data and - associates the bio with the inode's owner cgroup and the - corresponding request queue. This must be called after - a queue (device) has been associated with the bio and - before submission. + associates the bio with the inode's owner cgroup. Can be + called anytime between bio allocation and submission. wbc_account_io(@wbc, @page, @bytes) Should be called for each data segment being written out. @@ -1879,7 +1877,7 @@ the configuration, the bio may be executed at a lower priority and if the writeback session is holding shared resources, e.g. a journal entry, may lead to priority inversion. There is no one easy solution for the problem. Filesystems can try to work around specific problem -cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_create_blkg() +cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_blkcg() directly. -- cgit v1.2.3