[PATCH 4/6] bdi: make backing_dev_info->wb.dwork canceling stricter

Tejun Heo
2014-09-07T23:04:17Z

Canceling of bdi->wb.dwork is currently a bit mushy.
bdi_wb_shutdown() performs cancel_delayed_work_sync() at the end after
shutting down and flushing the delayed_work and bdi_destroy() tries
yet again after bdi_unregister().

bdi->wb.dwork is queued only after checking BDI_registered while
holding bdi->wb_lock and bdi_wb_shutdown() clears the flag while
holding the same lock and then flushes the delayed_work. There's no
way the delayed_work can be queued again after that.

Replace the two unnecessary cancel_delayed_work_sync() invocations
with WARNs on pending. This simplifies and clarifies the code a bit
and will help future changes in further isolating bdi_writeback
handling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 15 ++-------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 4afeefe..cb7c5e3 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -376,13 +376,7 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
mod_delayed_work(bdi_wq, &bdi->wb.dwork, 0);
flush_delayed_work(&bdi->wb.dwork);
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&bdi->work_list));
-
- /*
- * This shouldn't be necessary unless @bdi for some reason has
- * unflushed dirty IO after work_list is drained. Do it anyway
- * just in case.
- */
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bdi->wb.dwork);
+ WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&bdi->wb.dwork));
}

/*
@@ -497,12 +491,7 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)

bdi_unregister(bdi);

- /*
- * If bdi_unregister() had already been called earlier, the dwork
- * could still be pending because bdi_prune_sb() can race with the
- * bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed() calls from __mark_inode_dirty().
- */
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bdi->wb.dwork);
+ WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&bdi->wb.dwork));

for (i = 0; i < NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
percpu_counter_destroy(&bdi->bdi_stat[i]);
--
1.9.3