Hello, On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 09:53:52PM -0400, Dennis Zhou wrote: > - css = cgroup_get_e_css(page->mem_cgroup->css.cgroup, &io_cgrp_subsys); > > - return __bio_associate_blkg_from_css(bio, css); > + rcu_read_lock(); > + > + while (true) { > + css = cgroup_e_css(page->mem_cgroup->css.cgroup, > + &io_cgrp_subsys); So, while they seem similar cgroup_e_css() and cgroup_get_e_css() behave very differently in terms of locking. cgroup_e_css() can only be used under cgroup_mutex because it is used during migration and has to test cgroup_ss_mask(). The right thing to do here would be renaming cgroup_e_css() to something else and add a new implementation which operates in the same way as cgroup_get_e_css(). BTW, this should have triggered lockdep warning. I'd strongly recommend testing with lockdep enabled. Other than that, looks good to me. Thanks. -- tejun