This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: stop writeback thread after detaching
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bcache-stop-writeback-thread-after-detaching.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 10:16:32 CEST 2018
From: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 12:21:19 -0800
Subject: bcache: stop writeback thread after detaching
From: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 8d29c4426b9f8afaccf28de414fde8a722b35fdf ]
Currently, when a cached device detaching from cache, writeback thread is
not stopped, and writeback_rate_update work is not canceled. For example,
after the following command:
echo 1 >/sys/block/sdb/bcache/detach
you can still see the writeback thread. Then you attach the device to the
cache again, bcache will create another writeback thread, for example,
after below command:
echo ba0fb5cd-658a-4533-9806-6ce166d883b9 > /sys/block/sdb/bcache/attach
then you will see 2 writeback threads.
This patch stops writeback thread and cancels writeback_rate_update work
when cached device detaching from cache.
Compare with patch v1, this v2 patch moves code down into the register
lock for safety in case of any future changes as Coly and Mike suggested.
[edit by mlyle: commit log spelling/formatting]
Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -906,6 +906,12 @@ static void cached_dev_detach_finish(str
mutex_lock(&bch_register_lock);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dc->writeback_rate_update);
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread)) {
+ kthread_stop(dc->writeback_thread);
+ dc->writeback_thread = NULL;
+ }
+
memset(&dc->sb.set_uuid, 0, 16);
SET_BDEV_STATE(&dc->sb, BDEV_STATE_NONE);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.15/bcache-segregate-flash-only-volume-write-streams.patch
queue-4.15/bcache-stop-writeback-thread-after-detaching.patch