Re: [PATCH -next] block: fix blktrace debugfs entries leak

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 30 2023 - 10:31:04 EST


On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:07:54AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
>> If we don't care about blktrace for passthrough io after del_gendisk(),
>> and /dev/sg* has separate handling, I think it's better just to check
>> QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED in blk_trace_setup(), and don't enable blktrace
>> in the first place.
>
> Any suggestions about this problem? Should we use separate handling for
> /dev/sd? Or just free blktrace in blk_free_queue().

I'd be fine with trying to either remove the /dev/sg blktrace handling
and / or splitting it up so that it doesn't interact with the main disk
based one. I can look into this if you want, or leave it to you.