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2009-06-10block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflowNikanth Karthikesan
Currently io_context has an atomic_t(32-bit) as refcount. In the case of cfq, for each device against whcih a task does I/O, a reference to the io_context would be taken. And when there are multiple process sharing io_contexts(CLONE_IO) would also have a reference to the same io_context. Theoretically the possible maximum number of processes sharing the same io_context + the number of disks/cfq_data referring to the same io_context can overflow the 32-bit counter on a very high-end machine. Even though it is an improbable case, let us make it atomic_long_t. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07cfq-iosched: fix RCU race in the cfq io_context destructor handlingJens Axboe
put_io_context() drops the RCU read lock before calling into cfq_dtor(), however we need to hold off freeing there before grabbing and dereferencing the first object on the list. So extend the rcu_read_lock() scope to cover the calling of cfq_dtor(), and optimize cfq_free_io_context() to use a new variant for call_for_each_cic() that assumes the RCU read lock is already held. Hit in the wild by Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19cfq-iosched: add hlist for browsing parallel to the radix treeJens Axboe
It's cumbersome to browse a radix tree from start to finish, especially since we modify keys when a process exits. So add a hlist for the single purpose of browsing over all known cfq_io_contexts, used for exit, io prio change, etc. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9948 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-02-19make blk_ioc_init() staticAdrian Bunk
blk_ioc_init() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk>
2008-02-01block: kill swap_io_context()Jens Axboe
It blindly copies everything in the io_context, including the lock. That doesn't work so well for either lock ordering or lockdep. There seems zero point in swapping io contexts on a request to request merge, so the best point of action is to just remove it. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-29block: continue ll_rw_blk.c splitupJens Axboe
Adds files for barrier handling, rq execution, io context handling, mapping data to requests, and queue settings. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>