On 9/13/26 12:24 PM, Yu Kuai wrote:
From: Yu Kuai <[email protected]>

blkcg_punt_bio_submit() currently queues punted bios on blkg->async_bios,
so it has to call bio_blkg() to find or create a queue-local blkg.  Bios
now carry and pin the blkcg css, so punted bio lifetime no longer needs to
be anchored by a blkg.

Keeping the punt state in blkg can instantiate a blkg even when no blkcg
policy is enabled, just to bounce submission from a shared kthread.  Move
async_bio_lock, async_bios and async_bio_work to struct blkcg, and queue
punted bios on bio_blkcg() for non-root cgroups.  Root or unassociated bios
are submitted directly.

This preserves the priority-inversion avoidance while preventing
blkcg_punt_bio_submit() from creating blkgs that are not needed by any
policy.

Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <[email protected]>
---
  block/blk-cgroup.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
  block/blk-cgroup.h | 14 ++++++-------
  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 59ccfefe16a8..aa3cee107ebe 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -180,14 +180,10 @@ static void blkg_free(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
static void __blkg_release(struct rcu_head *rcu)
  {
        struct blkcg_gq *blkg = container_of(rcu, struct blkcg_gq, rcu_head);
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
-       WARN_ON(!bio_list_empty(&blkg->async_bios));
-#endif
-
        blkg_free(blkg);
  }
/*
   * A group is RCU protected, but having an rcu lock does not mean that one
@@ -226,23 +222,23 @@ static void blkg_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
  }
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
  static struct workqueue_struct *blkcg_punt_bio_wq;
-static void blkg_async_bio_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
+static void blkcg_async_bio_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
  {
-       struct blkcg_gq *blkg = container_of(work, struct blkcg_gq,
-                                            async_bio_work);
+       struct blkcg *blkcg = container_of(work, struct blkcg, async_bio_work);
        struct bio_list bios = BIO_EMPTY_LIST;
        struct bio *bio;
        struct blk_plug plug;
        bool need_plug = false;
- /* as long as there are pending bios, @blkg can't go away */
-       spin_lock(&blkg->async_bio_lock);
-       bio_list_merge_init(&bios, &blkg->async_bios);
-       spin_unlock(&blkg->async_bio_lock);
+       /* as long as there are pending bios, @blkcg can't go away */
+       {
+               guard(spinlock)(&blkcg->async_bio_lock);
+               bio_list_merge_init(&bios, &blkcg->async_bios);
+       }

Instead of using guard(spinlock)(...) here, I think we could use the
simpler spin_lock()/spin_unlock() helpers. IMO, they are easier
to read and reason about for these short critical sections.

        /* start plug only when bio_list contains at least 2 bios */
        if (bios.head && bios.head->bi_next) {
                need_plug = true;
                blk_start_plug(&plug);
@@ -259,19 +255,20 @@ static void blkg_async_bio_workfn(struct work_struct 
*work)
   * cgroup.  Use this helper instead of submit_bio to punt the actual issuing 
to
   * a dedicated per-blkcg work item to avoid such priority inversions.
   */
  void blkcg_punt_bio_submit(struct bio *bio)
  {
-       struct blkcg_gq *blkg = bio_blkg(bio);
+       struct blkcg *blkcg = bio_blkcg(bio);
- if (blkg && blkg->parent) {
-               spin_lock(&blkg->async_bio_lock);
-               bio_list_add(&blkg->async_bios, bio);
-               spin_unlock(&blkg->async_bio_lock);
-               queue_work(blkcg_punt_bio_wq, &blkg->async_bio_work);
+       if (blkcg && cgroup_parent(blkcg->css.cgroup)) {
+               {
+                       guard(spinlock)(&blkcg->async_bio_lock);
+                       bio_list_add(&blkcg->async_bios, bio);
+               }
+               queue_work(blkcg_punt_bio_wq, &blkcg->async_bio_work);

Again same here, replace guard() with spin_lock() and spin_unlock()
helpers.

        } else {
-               /* Never bounce if there is no non-root blkg to queue on. */
+               /* Never bounce if there is no non-root blkcg to queue on. */
                submit_bio(bio);
        }
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkcg_punt_bio_submit);
@@ -350,15 +347,10 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_alloc(struct blkcg *blkcg, struct gendisk *disk,
        blkg->q = disk->queue;
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&blkg->q_node);
        blkg->blkcg = blkcg;
        blkg->blkcg_id = blkcg->css.id;
        blkg->iostat.blkg = blkg;
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
-       spin_lock_init(&blkg->async_bio_lock);
-       bio_list_init(&blkg->async_bios);
-       INIT_WORK(&blkg->async_bio_work, blkg_async_bio_workfn);
-#endif
u64_stats_init(&blkg->iostat.sync);
        for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
                u64_stats_init(&per_cpu_ptr(blkg->iostat_cpu, cpu)->sync);
                per_cpu_ptr(blkg->iostat_cpu, cpu)->blkg = blkg;
@@ -1399,10 +1391,16 @@ static void blkcg_css_free(struct cgroup_subsys_state 
*css)
                if (blkcg->cpd[i])
                        blkcg_policy[i]->cpd_free_fn(blkcg->cpd[i]);
mutex_unlock(&blkcg_pol_mutex); +#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
+       {
+               guard(spinlock)(&blkcg->async_bio_lock);
+               WARN_ON(!bio_list_empty(&blkcg->async_bios));
+       }
+#endif

This is a slightly different case. At this point blkcg_css_free() is
freeing the blkcg object after its final reference has gone away, so
there should be no concurrent context accessing blkcg->async_bios.
Therefore, I don't think we need to acquire async_bio_lock here just
to perform the WARN_ON() check.
The clang context annotation cannot infer this object-lifetime property
and will therefore report an unprotected access. I think we should
explicitly mark this access as context-unsafe.

But wait, even better, we could introduce a bio_list_empty_careful() helper,
similar to list_empty_careful(), for this purpose:

static inline bool bio_list_empty_careful(const struct bio_list *bl)
        __context_unsafe(/* intentional lockless access to @bl->head */)
{
        return bl->head == NULL;
}

Then this could simply become:

WARN_ON(!bio_list_empty_careful(&blkcg->async_bios));

        free_percpu(blkcg->lhead);
        kfree(blkcg);
  }
static struct cgroup_subsys_state *
@@ -1447,10 +1445,18 @@ blkcg_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
        }
spin_lock_init(&blkcg->lock);
        refcount_set(&blkcg->online_pin, 1);
        INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&blkcg->blkg_list);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_PUNT_BIO
+       spin_lock_init(&blkcg->async_bio_lock);
+       {
+               guard(spinlock)(&blkcg->async_bio_lock);
+               bio_list_init(&blkcg->async_bios);
+       }
+       INIT_WORK(&blkcg->async_bio_work, blkcg_async_bio_workfn);
+#endif

This is interesting. As you know, while an object is being allocated
and before it is published, it can't be accessed concurrently. So
guarding blkcg->async_bios with blkcg->async_bio_lock is not necessary
here. Moreover, since blkcg is zero-initialized, we could simply remove
both the guard(...) and the bio_list_init() call above.

Thanks,
--Nilay


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