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blkcg: kill the mind-bending blkg->dev
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:15:09 +0000 (13:15 -0800)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:27:22 +0000 (21:27 +0100)
commit7a4dd281ec66224f802093962d1d903d86b09560
treec38c5c40464d4d7eb429cc14348a435176832ef2
parent4bfd482e73b30284cb21e10834ce729fa81aa256
blkcg: kill the mind-bending blkg->dev

blkg->dev is dev_t recording the device number of the block device for
the associated request_queue.  It is used to identify the associated
block device when printing out configuration or stats.

This is redundant to begin with.  A blkg is an association between a
cgroup and a request_queue and it of course is possible to reach
request_queue from blkg and synchronization conventions are in place
for safe q dereferencing, so this shouldn't be necessary from the
beginning.  Furthermore, it's initialized by sscanf()ing the device
name of backing_dev_info.  The mind boggles.

Anyways, if blkg is visible under rcu lock, we *know* that the
associated request_queue hasn't gone away yet and its bdi is
registered and alive - blkg can't be created for request_queue which
hasn't been fully initialized and it can't go away before blkg is
removed.

Let stat and conf read functions get device name from
blkg->q->backing_dev_info.dev and pass it down to printing functions
and remove blkg->dev.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block/blk-cgroup.c
block/blk-cgroup.h
block/blk-throttle.c
block/cfq-iosched.c