Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: remove unused blk_queue_for_each_rl stub
From: Tang Yizhou
Date: Thu Jul 23 2026 - 07:30:05 EST
On 17/7/26 6:20 pm, Tao Cui wrote:
> From: Tao Cui <cuitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> blk_queue_for_each_rl() was added by commit a051661ca6d1 ("blkcg:
> implement per-blkg request allocation") to iterate over the root request
> list and per-blkg request lists for the legacy (non-blk-mq) request
> allocation path. The request_list code, including q->root_rl from
> struct request_queue, was later removed in 2018 by commit db6d99523560
> ("block: remove request_list code").
>
> The macro definition left behind in the !CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP fallback
> branch of the private block/blk-cgroup.h header now references the
> removed q->root_rl field, and has no callers in-tree (it would fail to
> compile if expanded, so it cannot have any out-of-tree users either).
>
> Remove the dead stub.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/blk-cgroup.h | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> index 615390f751aa..6a309d2d3db5 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> @@ -500,9 +500,6 @@ static inline void blkg_put(struct blkcg_gq *blkg) { }
> static inline void blk_cgroup_bio_start(struct bio *bio) { }
> static inline bool blk_cgroup_mergeable(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio) { return true; }
>
> -#define blk_queue_for_each_rl(rl, q) \
> - for ((rl) = &(q)->root_rl; (rl); (rl) = NULL)
> -
> #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP */
>
> #endif /* _BLK_CGROUP_PRIVATE_H */
Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <yizhou.tang@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Best Regards,
Yi