Re: [writeback] 8bc4ad9498: INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]

[Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>]

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On 09/08, Jens Axboe wrote:
>On 09/07/2016 08:04 PM, Ye Xiaolong wrote:
>>On 09/08, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>>>Hi Jens and Tejun,
>>>
>>>>The command line was in the original email:
>>>>
>>>>$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu Westmere -m 512M
>>>>
>>>>And agree, in general it'd be nice if there was a link to the image as
>>>>well, so that folks can reproduce.
>>>
>>>Yes we have a reproduce script internally, however need to polish it
>>>up and make it general usable by kernel developers.
>>>
>>>CC Philip. It'd be helpful to give more priority to the "lkp qemu"
>>>reproduce command.
>>>
>>>For the warning here, it does not depend on any initrd, I just
>>>confirmed this simple script can reproduce the problem.
>>
>>Yes, just confirmed that v4.8-rc5 doesn't have this warning, while kernel
>>for the updated commit (fa0e2cb1af765691fabd329f03cad563a0eebf18) on branch
>>wb-buf-throttle could reproduce it.
>
>Anyone willing to try the below patch?

The warning log is gone with this patch.

Tested-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>

Thanks,
Xiaolong

>
>diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>index ef61bda76317..a7bb2e6bcaef 100644
>--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
>+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
>@@ -3764,9 +3764,11 @@ static void check_blkcg_changed(struct
>cfq_io_cq *cic, struct bio *bio)
> 	struct cfq_data *cfqd = cic_to_cfqd(cic);
> 	struct cfq_queue *cfqq;
> 	uint64_t serial_nr;
>+	bool nonroot_cg;
>
> 	rcu_read_lock();
> 	serial_nr = bio_blkcg(bio)->css.serial_nr;
>+	nonroot_cg = bio_blkcg(bio) != &blkcg_root;
> 	rcu_read_unlock();
>
> 	/*
>@@ -3781,7 +3783,7 @@ static void check_blkcg_changed(struct
>cfq_io_cq *cic, struct bio *bio)
> 	 * do proper throttling of writes. Turn off wbt for that
> 	 * case.
> 	 */
>-	if (bio_blkcg(bio) != &blkcg_root) {
>+	if (nonroot_cg) {
> 		struct request_queue *q = cfqd->queue;
>
> 		if (q->rq_wb)
>
>-- 
>Jens Axboe
>