Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: Call cgroup_path only under cgroup lock

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 14:04:29 EST


Hello, Sasha.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:01:18PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Since we can't keep rcu read lock during blkg_alloc(), we currently
> call cgroup_path() without any locks at all.
>
> This patch adds cgroup locking before calling cgroup_path.
>
> This also fixes a lockdep warning on boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>

Which branch is this against? There's already pending stat update
patch from Vivek which fix this problem along with the percpu
allocation problem.

Thanks.

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tejun
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