Re: CFQ is broken for CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=y, CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=n

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Wed Apr 28 2010 - 09:49:01 EST


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:44:51PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
>
> I've had an oops on kernel boot due to NULL pointer deference
> linux-2.6-block/for-next HEAD:7eaed1226ab411ee5dc8c34fc0d8034e4c98e3c6
> I've enabled CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP, but not CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
> In this case cfq_ref_get_cfqg() defined as
> static inline struct cfq_group *cfq_ref_get_cfqg(struct cfq_group *cfqg)
> {
> return NULL;
> }
> So following call trace is simply NOOP
> cfq_set_request()
> rq->elevator_private3 = cfq_ref_get_cfqg(cfqq->cfqg);
>
> Which later result in OOPS on bio insertion
> cfq_insert_request
> -> blkiocg_update_io_add_stats(&(RQ_CFQG(rq))->blkg,...)
> -> spin_lock_irqsave(&blkg->stats_lock, flags);
>
> Bad commit.
> >From 7f1dc8a2d2f45fc557b27fd56115338b1d34fc24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:44:16 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] blkio: Fix blkio crash during rq stat update

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for reporting the issue. I am cooking up a patch now.

Vivek
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