As noted by Michal, the blkg_iostat_set's in the lockless list hold reference to blkg's to protect against their removal. Those blkg's hold reference to blkcg. When a cgroup is being destroyed, cgroup_rstat_flush() is only called at css_release_work_fn() which is called when the blkcg reference count reaches 0. This circular dependency will prevent blkcg from being freed until some other events cause cgroup_rstat_flush() to be called to flush out the pending blkcg stats. To prevent this delayed blkcg removal, add a new cgroup_rstat_css_flush() function to flush stats for a given css and cpu and call it at the blkgs destruction path, blkcg_destroy_blkgs(), whenever there are still some pending stats to be flushed. This will ensure that blkcg reference count can reach 0 ASAP. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-cgroup.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- include/linux/cgroup.h | 1 + kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c index 3e03c0d13253..57941d2a8ba3 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c @@ -1084,10 +1084,12 @@ struct list_head *blkcg_get_cgwb_list(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) */ static void blkcg_destroy_blkgs(struct blkcg *blkcg) { + int cpu; + might_sleep(); + css_get(&blkcg->css); spin_lock_irq(&blkcg->lock); - while (!hlist_empty(&blkcg->blkg_list)) { struct blkcg_gq *blkg = hlist_entry(blkcg->blkg_list.first, struct blkcg_gq, blkcg_node); @@ -1110,6 +1112,17 @@ static void blkcg_destroy_blkgs(struct blkcg *blkcg) } spin_unlock_irq(&blkcg->lock); + + /* + * Flush all the non-empty percpu lockless lists. + */ + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { + struct llist_head *lhead = per_cpu_ptr(blkcg->lhead, cpu); + + if (!llist_empty(lhead)) + cgroup_rstat_css_cpu_flush(&blkcg->css, cpu); + } + css_put(&blkcg->css); } /** diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 528bd44b59e2..6c4e66b3fa84 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -766,6 +766,7 @@ void cgroup_rstat_flush(struct cgroup *cgrp); void cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe(struct cgroup *cgrp); void cgroup_rstat_flush_hold(struct cgroup *cgrp); void cgroup_rstat_flush_release(void); +void cgroup_rstat_css_cpu_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, int cpu); /* * Basic resource stats. diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c index 793ecff29038..910e633869b0 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c @@ -281,6 +281,26 @@ void cgroup_rstat_flush_release(void) spin_unlock_irq(&cgroup_rstat_lock); } +/** + * cgroup_rstat_css_cpu_flush - flush stats for the given css and cpu + * @css: target css to be flush + * @cpu: the cpu that holds the stats to be flush + * + * A lightweight rstat flush operation for a given css and cpu. + * Only the cpu_lock is being held for mutual exclusion, the cgroup_rstat_lock + * isn't used. + */ +void cgroup_rstat_css_cpu_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, int cpu) +{ + raw_spinlock_t *cpu_lock = per_cpu_ptr(&cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock, cpu); + + raw_spin_lock_irq(cpu_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); + css->ss->css_rstat_flush(css, cpu); + rcu_read_unlock(); + raw_spin_unlock_irq(cpu_lock); +} + int cgroup_rstat_init(struct cgroup *cgrp) { int cpu; -- 2.31.1