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<title>linux-toradex.git/block/blk-cgroup.c, branch v4.18-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>blkcg: init root blkcg_gq under lock</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T14:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Biao</name>
<email>jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-19T04:06:09+00:00</published>
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The initializing of q-&gt;root_blkg is currently outside of queue lock
and rcu, so the blkg may be destroied before the initializing, which
may cause dangling/null references. On the other side, the destroys
of blkg are protected by queue lock or rcu. Put the initializing
inside the queue lock and rcu to make it safer.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang99@zte.com.cn&gt;
CC: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The initializing of q-&gt;root_blkg is currently outside of queue lock
and rcu, so the blkg may be destroied before the initializing, which
may cause dangling/null references. On the other side, the destroys
of blkg are protected by queue lock or rcu. Put the initializing
inside the queue lock and rcu to make it safer.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang99@zte.com.cn&gt;
CC: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: small fix on comment in blkcg_init_queue</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T14:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Biao</name>
<email>jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-19T04:04:26+00:00</published>
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The comment before blkg_create() in blkcg_init_queue() was moved
from blkcg_activate_policy() by commit ec13b1d6f0a0457312e615, but
it does not suit for the new context.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang99@zte.com.cn&gt;
CC: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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The comment before blkg_create() in blkcg_init_queue() was moved
from blkcg_activate_policy() by commit ec13b1d6f0a0457312e615, but
it does not suit for the new context.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang99@zte.com.cn&gt;
CC: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
CC: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: don't hold blkcg lock when deactivating policy</title>
<updated>2018-04-18T14:37:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Biao</name>
<email>jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-18T14:37:18+00:00</published>
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As described in the comment of blkcg_activate_policy(),
*Update of each blkg is protected by both queue and blkcg locks so
that holding either lock and testing blkcg_policy_enabled() is
always enough for dereferencing policy data.*
with queue lock held, there is no need to hold blkcg lock in
blkcg_deactivate_policy(). Similar case is in
blkcg_activate_policy(), which has removed holding of blkcg lock in
commit 4c55f4f9ad3001ac1fefdd8d8ca7641d18558e23.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang99@zte.com.cn&gt;
CC: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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As described in the comment of blkcg_activate_policy(),
*Update of each blkg is protected by both queue and blkcg locks so
that holding either lock and testing blkcg_policy_enabled() is
always enough for dereferencing policy data.*
with queue lock held, there is no need to hold blkcg lock in
blkcg_deactivate_policy(). Similar case is in
blkcg_activate_policy(), which has removed holding of blkcg lock in
commit 4c55f4f9ad3001ac1fefdd8d8ca7641d18558e23.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao &lt;jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang99@zte.com.cn&gt;
CC: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-throttle: fix race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir()</title>
<updated>2018-03-16T16:35:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Qi</name>
<email>joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-16T06:51:27+00:00</published>
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We've triggered a WARNING in blk_throtl_bio() when throttling writeback
io, which complains blkg-&gt;refcnt is already 0 when calling blkg_get(),
and then kernel crashes with invalid page request.
After investigating this issue, we've found it is caused by a race
between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir(), which is described
below:

writeback kworker               cgroup_rmdir
                                  cgroup_destroy_locked
                                    kill_css
                                      css_killed_ref_fn
                                        css_killed_work_fn
                                          offline_css
                                            blkcg_css_offline
  blkcg_bio_issue_check
    rcu_read_lock
    blkg_lookup
                                              spin_trylock(q-&gt;queue_lock)
                                              blkg_destroy
                                              spin_unlock(q-&gt;queue_lock)
    blk_throtl_bio
    spin_lock_irq(q-&gt;queue_lock)
    ...
    spin_unlock_irq(q-&gt;queue_lock)
  rcu_read_unlock

Since rcu can only prevent blkg from releasing when it is being used,
the blkg-&gt;refcnt can be decreased to 0 during blkg_destroy() and schedule
blkg release.
Then trying to blkg_get() in blk_throtl_bio() will complains the WARNING.
And then the corresponding blkg_put() will schedule blkg release again,
which result in double free.
This race is introduced by commit ae1188963611 ("blkcg: consolidate blkg
creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()"). Before this commit, it will
lookup first and then try to lookup/create again with queue_lock. Since
revive this logic is a bit drastic, so fix it by only offlining pd during
blkcg_css_offline(), and move the rest destruction (especially
blkg_put()) into blkcg_css_free(), which should be the right way as
discussed.

Fixes: ae1188963611 ("blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()")
Reported-by: Jiufei Xue &lt;jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi &lt;joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
We've triggered a WARNING in blk_throtl_bio() when throttling writeback
io, which complains blkg-&gt;refcnt is already 0 when calling blkg_get(),
and then kernel crashes with invalid page request.
After investigating this issue, we've found it is caused by a race
between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir(), which is described
below:

writeback kworker               cgroup_rmdir
                                  cgroup_destroy_locked
                                    kill_css
                                      css_killed_ref_fn
                                        css_killed_work_fn
                                          offline_css
                                            blkcg_css_offline
  blkcg_bio_issue_check
    rcu_read_lock
    blkg_lookup
                                              spin_trylock(q-&gt;queue_lock)
                                              blkg_destroy
                                              spin_unlock(q-&gt;queue_lock)
    blk_throtl_bio
    spin_lock_irq(q-&gt;queue_lock)
    ...
    spin_unlock_irq(q-&gt;queue_lock)
  rcu_read_unlock

Since rcu can only prevent blkg from releasing when it is being used,
the blkg-&gt;refcnt can be decreased to 0 during blkg_destroy() and schedule
blkg release.
Then trying to blkg_get() in blk_throtl_bio() will complains the WARNING.
And then the corresponding blkg_put() will schedule blkg release again,
which result in double free.
This race is introduced by commit ae1188963611 ("blkcg: consolidate blkg
creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()"). Before this commit, it will
lookup first and then try to lookup/create again with queue_lock. Since
revive this logic is a bit drastic, so fix it by only offlining pd during
blkcg_css_offline(), and move the rest destruction (especially
blkg_put()) into blkcg_css_free(), which should be the right way as
discussed.

Fixes: ae1188963611 ("blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()")
Reported-by: Jiufei Xue &lt;jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi &lt;joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genhd: Add helper put_disk_and_module()</title>
<updated>2018-02-26T16:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-26T12:01:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Add a proper counterpart to get_disk_and_module() -
put_disk_and_module(). Currently it is opencoded in several places.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Add a proper counterpart to get_disk_and_module() -
put_disk_and_module(). Currently it is opencoded in several places.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: add sanity check for blkcg policy operations</title>
<updated>2017-11-04T18:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>weiping zhang</name>
<email>zhangweiping@didichuxing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-17T15:56:21+00:00</published>
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blkcg policy should keep cpd/pd's alloc_fn and free_fn in pairs,
otherwise policy would register fail.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang &lt;zhangweiping@didichuxing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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blkcg policy should keep cpd/pd's alloc_fn and free_fn in pairs,
otherwise policy would register fail.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang &lt;zhangweiping@didichuxing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: check pol-&gt;cpd_free_fn before free cpd</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T15:04:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>weiping zhang</name>
<email>zhangweiping@didichuxing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T14:53:46+00:00</published>
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check pol-&gt;cpd_free_fn() instead of pol-&gt;cpd_alloc_fn() when free cpd.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang &lt;zhangweiping@didichuxing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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check pol-&gt;cpd_free_fn() instead of pol-&gt;cpd_alloc_fn() when free cpd.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: weiping zhang &lt;zhangweiping@didichuxing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: avoid free blkcg_root when failed to alloc blkcg policy</title>
<updated>2017-08-25T19:51:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>weiping zhang</name>
<email>zhangweiping@didichuxing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-25T15:49:32+00:00</published>
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this patch fix two errors, firstly avoid kfree blk_root, secondly not
free(blkcg) ,if blkcg alloc fail(blkcg == NULL), just unlock that mutex;

Signed-off-by: weiping zhang &lt;zhangweiping@didichuxing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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this patch fix two errors, firstly avoid kfree blk_root, secondly not
free(blkcg) ,if blkcg alloc fail(blkcg == NULL), just unlock that mutex;

Signed-off-by: weiping zhang &lt;zhangweiping@didichuxing.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Avoid that blk_exit_rl() triggers a use-after-free</title>
<updated>2017-06-01T19:07:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@sandisk.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-31T21:43:45+00:00</published>
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Since the introduction of .init_rq_fn() and .exit_rq_fn() it is
essential that the memory allocated for struct request_queue
stays around until all blk_exit_rl() calls have finished. Hence
make blk_init_rl() take a reference on struct request_queue.

This patch fixes the following crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#2] SMP
CPU: 3 PID: 28 Comm: ksoftirqd/3 Tainted: G      D         4.12.0-rc2-dbg+ #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
task: ffff88013a108040 task.stack: ffffc9000071c000
RIP: 0010:free_request_size+0x1a/0x30
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000071fd38 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: ffff880067362a88 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: ffff880067464178 RSI: ffff880067362a88 RDI: ffff880135ea4418
RBP: ffffc9000071fd40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000100180009
R10: ffffc9000071fd38 R11: ffffffff81110800 R12: ffff88006752d3d8
R13: ffff88006752d3d8 R14: ffff88013a108040 R15: 000000000000000a
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa8ec1edb00 CR3: 0000000138ee8000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
Call Trace:
 mempool_destroy.part.10+0x21/0x40
 mempool_destroy+0xe/0x10
 blk_exit_rl+0x12/0x20
 blkg_free+0x4d/0xa0
 __blkg_release_rcu+0x59/0x170
 rcu_process_callbacks+0x260/0x4e0
 __do_softirq+0x116/0x250
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x123/0x1e0
 kthread+0x109/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40

Fixes: commit e9c787e65c0c ("scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<pre>
Since the introduction of .init_rq_fn() and .exit_rq_fn() it is
essential that the memory allocated for struct request_queue
stays around until all blk_exit_rl() calls have finished. Hence
make blk_init_rl() take a reference on struct request_queue.

This patch fixes the following crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#2] SMP
CPU: 3 PID: 28 Comm: ksoftirqd/3 Tainted: G      D         4.12.0-rc2-dbg+ #2
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
task: ffff88013a108040 task.stack: ffffc9000071c000
RIP: 0010:free_request_size+0x1a/0x30
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000071fd38 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RBX: ffff880067362a88 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: ffff880067464178 RSI: ffff880067362a88 RDI: ffff880135ea4418
RBP: ffffc9000071fd40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000100180009
R10: ffffc9000071fd38 R11: ffffffff81110800 R12: ffff88006752d3d8
R13: ffff88006752d3d8 R14: ffff88013a108040 R15: 000000000000000a
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fa8ec1edb00 CR3: 0000000138ee8000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
Call Trace:
 mempool_destroy.part.10+0x21/0x40
 mempool_destroy+0xe/0x10
 blk_exit_rl+0x12/0x20
 blkg_free+0x4d/0xa0
 __blkg_release_rcu+0x59/0x170
 rcu_process_callbacks+0x260/0x4e0
 __do_softirq+0x116/0x250
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x123/0x1e0
 kthread+0x109/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40

Fixes: commit e9c787e65c0c ("scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blkcg: allocate struct blkcg_gq outside request queue spinlock</title>
<updated>2017-03-29T17:27:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tahsin Erdogan</name>
<email>tahsin@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-29T17:27:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
blkg_conf_prep() currently calls blkg_lookup_create() while holding
request queue spinlock. This means allocating memory for struct
blkcg_gq has to be made non-blocking. This causes occasional -ENOMEM
failures in call paths like below:

  pcpu_alloc+0x68f/0x710
  __alloc_percpu_gfp+0xd/0x10
  __percpu_counter_init+0x55/0xc0
  cfq_pd_alloc+0x3b2/0x4e0
  blkg_alloc+0x187/0x230
  blkg_create+0x489/0x670
  blkg_lookup_create+0x9a/0x230
  blkg_conf_prep+0x1fb/0x240
  __cfqg_set_weight_device.isra.105+0x5c/0x180
  cfq_set_weight_on_dfl+0x69/0xc0
  cgroup_file_write+0x39/0x1c0
  kernfs_fop_write+0x13f/0x1d0
  __vfs_write+0x23/0x120
  vfs_write+0xc2/0x1f0
  SyS_write+0x44/0xb0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

In the code path above, percpu allocator cannot call vmalloc() due to
queue spinlock.

A failure in this call path gives grief to tools which are trying to
configure io weights. We see occasional failures happen shortly after
reboots even when system is not under any memory pressure. Machines
with a lot of cpus are more vulnerable to this condition.

Do struct blkcg_gq allocations outside the queue spinlock to allow
blocking during memory allocations.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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blkg_conf_prep() currently calls blkg_lookup_create() while holding
request queue spinlock. This means allocating memory for struct
blkcg_gq has to be made non-blocking. This causes occasional -ENOMEM
failures in call paths like below:

  pcpu_alloc+0x68f/0x710
  __alloc_percpu_gfp+0xd/0x10
  __percpu_counter_init+0x55/0xc0
  cfq_pd_alloc+0x3b2/0x4e0
  blkg_alloc+0x187/0x230
  blkg_create+0x489/0x670
  blkg_lookup_create+0x9a/0x230
  blkg_conf_prep+0x1fb/0x240
  __cfqg_set_weight_device.isra.105+0x5c/0x180
  cfq_set_weight_on_dfl+0x69/0xc0
  cgroup_file_write+0x39/0x1c0
  kernfs_fop_write+0x13f/0x1d0
  __vfs_write+0x23/0x120
  vfs_write+0xc2/0x1f0
  SyS_write+0x44/0xb0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

In the code path above, percpu allocator cannot call vmalloc() due to
queue spinlock.

A failure in this call path gives grief to tools which are trying to
configure io weights. We see occasional failures happen shortly after
reboots even when system is not under any memory pressure. Machines
with a lot of cpus are more vulnerable to this condition.

Do struct blkcg_gq allocations outside the queue spinlock to allow
blocking during memory allocations.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan &lt;tahsin@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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