Hello, On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:41:31AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote: > blkcg_deactivate_policy() can be called from either > blk_cleanup_queue() for all policies or elevator_switch() for bfq > policy. Thus there is no need to freeze queue in > blkcg_deactivate_policy() since the caller freeze the queue aready. > > Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> I would just keep the calls. The operation requires the q to be frozen and there isn't a good way to annotate that the caller must be holding a usage count, so it's useful even just as documentation. Thanks. -- tejun