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* [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio before blkcg_mutex conversion
@ 2026-08-11  6:47 Yu Kuai
  2026-08-11  6:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] blk-cgroup: wait for old blkgs to leave queue before disk rebind Yu Kuai
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From: Yu Kuai @ 2026-08-11  6:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe, Tejun Heo, Josef Bacik, Johannes Weiner,
	Michal Koutný
  Cc: Yu Kuai, Christoph Hellwig, Tao Cui, Jan Kara, Ming Lei,
	Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Coly Li, Kent Overstreet,
	Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer, Mikulas Patocka,
	Benjamin Marzinski, Song Liu, Li Nan, Xiao Ni, Pankaj Gupta,
	Dan Williams, Vishal Verma, Dave Jiang, Alison Schofield,
	Ira Weiny, Andreas Gruenbacher, Matthew Wilcox, Andrew Morton,
	Chris Li, Kairui Song, Kemeng Shi, Nhat Pham, Baoquan He,
	Barry Song, Youngjun Park, cgroups, linux-doc, linux-kernel,
	linux-block, linux-bcache, dm-devel, linux-raid, nvdimm,
	virtualization, gfs2, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm

From: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fygo.io>

This RFC remains a preparatory series for the blkcg_mutex conversion
proposed in the related blkcg_mutex RFC v2 series [1].  That conversion
moves queue-local blkg topology synchronization from q->queue_lock to
q->blkcg_mutex, which is awkward while bios directly store queue-local
blkg references.

v1 made the stored bio association queue-independent by replacing bi_blkg
with bi_blkcg, but a bio-owned blkg reference still had to be recovered by
looking up the bio's blkcg and current request_queue.  Tao Cui reported that
cgroup removal deletes a dying blkg from the per-blkcg radix tree before a
throttled bio drops its reference.  A later lookup for that pinned blkg then
fails, triggers the warning in bio_pinned_blkg(), and leaks the reference.

v2 makes request_queue the authoritative lookup owner before converting the
bio association.  A queue-owned rhashtable, keyed by the blkcg CSS ID, keeps
dying blkgs discoverable until their references drain while q->blkg_list
remains available for ordered walks.  The bio conversion then stores and
pins the blkcg CSS, lazily creates a blkg only for users which need one, and
uses lookup-only access for completion and accounting paths which already
own a blkg reference.  Async bio punt state is finally moved from blkg to
blkcg so punting alone does not instantiate a queue-local blkg.

Changes since v1:

  - Add patch 1 to wait for every old blkg to leave q->blkg_list before a
    shared request_queue is rebound, instead of treating root_blkg == NULL
    as completion of asynchronous blkg teardown.
  - Add patch 2 to replace the per-blkcg radix tree and lookup hint with a
    request_queue rhashtable keyed by blkcg->css.id, as suggested by
    Christoph Hellwig.  Keep dying pinned blkgs in the hash until
    blkg_release() so bio-owned references remain discoverable.
  - Fold the v1 helper-only patch into patch 3, as suggested by Jan Kara and
    Christoph Hellwig, and make bio_blkcg() naturally return NULL for an
    unassociated bio.
  - Rework patch 3 so blkg_lookup_create() acquires the bio-owned reference,
    falls back to a live parent when creation or tryget fails, and updates
    bi_blkcg when the returned blkg belongs to an ancestor.
  - Make bio_blkg_lookup() lookup-only: it returns NULL unless BIO_BLKG_REF
    is already set.  Use bio_blkg() in the BFQ and IOCOST merge paths which
    may need to create a blkg, while keeping blk_cgroup_bio_start() and
    completion paths lookup-only.
  - Move CSS online-reference handling into
    bio_associate_blkcg_from_css(), including fallback to the root blkcg, so
    bio_associate_blkcg() does not take a redundant reference.
  - Keep the v1 async bio punt conversion as patch 4 and document that
    async_bio_lock protects async_bios.

Previous versions:
  v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260804065313.2092022-1-yukuai@kernel.org

Related series:
  [1] RFC v2 blk-cgroup: protect blkgs with blkcg_mutex
      https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260724123037.3004560-1-yukuai@kernel.org

Yu Kuai (4):
  blk-cgroup: wait for old blkgs to leave queue before disk rebind
  blk-cgroup: use a request_queue rhashtable for blkg lookup
  blk-cgroup: store blkcg in bio instead of blkg
  blk-cgroup: move async bio punt state to blkcg

 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst |   2 +-
 block/bfq-cgroup.c                      |  16 +-
 block/bfq-iosched.c                     |  19 +-
 block/bio.c                             |  22 +-
 block/blk-cgroup-fc-appid.c             |  10 +-
 block/blk-cgroup.c                      | 348 ++++++++++++++----------
 block/blk-cgroup.h                      |  82 ++++--
 block/blk-core.c                        |   9 +-
 block/blk-crypto-fallback.c             |   2 +-
 block/blk-iocost.c                      |  12 +-
 block/blk-iolatency.c                   |  11 +-
 block/blk-ioprio.c                      |   2 +-
 block/blk-throttle.c                    |   2 +-
 block/blk-throttle.h                    |   2 +-
 drivers/md/bcache/request.c             |   2 +-
 drivers/md/dm.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/md/md.c                         |   2 +-
 drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c              |   2 +-
 fs/gfs2/lops.c                          |   3 +-
 include/linux/bio.h                     |  26 +-
 include/linux/blk_types.h               |   9 +-
 include/linux/blkdev.h                  |   2 +
 include/linux/writeback.h               |   2 +-
 mm/page_io.c                            |  13 +-
 24 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)


base-commit: f2690679ecf3a3151688ebef766dd2512ff95854
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2.51.0

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