linux.git/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h, branch v7.3-rc2 Linux kernel source tree block: skip blkcg walk in blk_cgroup_congested() when nothing throttled 2026-08-15T23:15:08+00:00 Usama Arif usama.arif@linux.dev 2026-08-14T16:56:39+00:00 4febfe7d98948bf6693f5c6a0a7e198e8fb4e584 blk_cgroup_congested() walks the current task's blkcg ancestor chain on every readahead decision and, once swap is in use, on every anonymous and shmem folio allocation. The answer is almost always "no", but finding that out costs two loads per level on two cold cache lines, plus an out-of-line kthread_blkcg() and an RCU read-side pair. On a fleet profile of hosts running containers with 5-10 level hierarchies it costs about as much as all of mutex_lock(), 99.4% of it under __folio_throttle_swaprate(). Gate the walk on a global count of blkcgs with a non-zero congestion_count. The counter only moves on the 0 <-> 1 transitions of each blkcg's congestion_count, so the extra atomic stays in the throttle arm/disarm paths and never appears in steady state. When something is throttled the counter is non-zero and the walk runs as before. Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260814165712.510132-4-usama.arif@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
blk_cgroup_congested() walks the current task's blkcg ancestor chain on
every readahead decision and, once swap is in use, on every anonymous and
shmem folio allocation.  The answer is almost always "no", but finding that
out costs two loads per level on two cold cache lines, plus an out-of-line
kthread_blkcg() and an RCU read-side pair.  On a fleet profile of hosts
running containers with 5-10 level hierarchies it costs about as much as
all of mutex_lock(), 99.4% of it under __folio_throttle_swaprate().

Gate the walk on a global count of blkcgs with a non-zero
congestion_count.  The counter only moves on the 0 <-> 1 transitions of
each blkcg's congestion_count, so the extra atomic stays in the throttle
arm/disarm paths and never appears in steady state. When something is
throttled the counter is non-zero and the walk runs as before.

Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260814165712.510132-4-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: pass a gendisk to blkcg_schedule_throttle 2022-09-27T01:17:28+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-09-21T18:05:00+00:00 de185b56e8a62822d4e1cdb3e068b38ca709aa47 Pass the gendisk to blkcg_schedule_throttle as part of moving the blk-cgroup infrastructure to be gendisk based. Remove the unused !BLK_CGROUP stub while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921180501.1539876-17-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Pass the gendisk to blkcg_schedule_throttle as part of moving the
blk-cgroup infrastructure to be gendisk based.  Remove the unused
!BLK_CGROUP stub while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921180501.1539876-17-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: remove unneeded includes from <linux/blk-cgroup.h> 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:19+00:00 c97ab271576dec2170e7b804cb05f7617b30fed9 Remove all the includes that aren't actually needed from <linux/blk-cgroup.h> and push them to the actual source files where needed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-12-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Remove all the includes that aren't actually needed from
<linux/blk-cgroup.h> and push them to the actual source files where
needed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-12-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: remove pointless CONFIG_BLOCK ifdefs 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:18+00:00 7f20ba7c42fd899557cef7d001f48711c3066ba5 No need to make BLK_CGROUP stubs conditional on CONFIG_BLOCK as they can't be used without that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-11-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
No need to make BLK_CGROUP stubs conditional on CONFIG_BLOCK as they
can't be used without that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: replace bio_blkcg with bio_blkcg_css 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:17+00:00 bbb1ebe7a909db4de49777fb7676d5bf293f34c9 All callers of bio_blkcg actually want the CSS, so replace it with an interface that does return the CSS. This now allows to move struct blkcg_gq to block/blk-cgroup.h instead of exposing it in a public header. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-10-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
All callers of bio_blkcg actually want the CSS, so replace it with an
interface that does return the CSS.  This now allows to move
struct blkcg_gq to block/blk-cgroup.h instead of exposing it in a
public header.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-10-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: move struct blkcg to block/blk-cgroup.h 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:15+00:00 dec223c92a4688f6c9642d640cfe15a99d289dd4 There is no real need to expose the blkcg structure to the whole kernel. Move it to the private header an expose a helper to let the writeback code access the cgwb_list member. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-8-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
There is no real need to expose the blkcg structure to the whole kernel.
Move it to the private header an expose a helper to let the writeback
code access the cgwb_list member.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: move blkcg_{pin,unpin}_online out of line 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:14+00:00 397c9f46ee4d99024c64954b007c1b5762d01cb4 Move these two functions out of line as there is no good reason to inline them. Also switch to passing a cgroup_subsys_state instead of doing the conversion in the caller to prepare for making the blkcg structure private to blk-cgroup. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-7-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
Move these two functions out of line as there is no good reason
to inline them.  Also switch to passing a cgroup_subsys_state
instead of doing the conversion in the caller to prepare for making
the blkcg structure private to blk-cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: move blk_cgroup_congested out line 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:13+00:00 216889aad362b5b7e998a5371348b5e95d485dd1 There is no urgent need to inline this function, so move it out of line. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
There is no urgent need to inline this function, so move it out of line.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk-cgroup: move blkcg_{get,set}_fc_appid out of line 2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00 Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de 2022-04-20T04:27:12+00:00 db05628435aa761d30b4eae481a82befe7a8492a No need to have these helpers inline. Also remove the stubs and just use an IS_ENABLED for the get side (the set side already is only built conditionlly). Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-5-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
No need to have these helpers inline.  Also remove the stubs and just use
an IS_ENABLED for the get side (the set side already is only built
conditionlly).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block: avoid calling blkg_free() in atomic context 2022-03-23T01:52:23+00:00 Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com 2022-03-23T01:13:08+00:00 d578c770c85233af592e54537f93f3831bde7e9a blkg_free() can currently be called in atomic context, either spin lock is held, or run in rcu callback. Meantime either request queue's release handler or ->pd_free_fn can sleep. Fix the issue by scheduling a work function for freeing blkcg_gq the instance. [ 148.553894] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at block/blk-sysfs.c:767 [ 148.557381] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/13 [ 148.560741] preempt_count: 101, expected: 0 [ 148.562577] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 [ 148.564379] 1 lock held by swapper/13/0: [ 148.566127] #0: ffffffff82615f80 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x1b [ 148.569640] Preemption disabled at: [ 148.569642] [<ffffffff8123f9c3>] ___slab_alloc+0x554/0x661 [ 148.573559] CPU: 13 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/13 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.17.0_up+ #110 [ 148.576834] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014 [ 148.579768] Call Trace: [ 148.580567] <IRQ> [ 148.581262] dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x7c [ 148.582367] ? ___slab_alloc+0x554/0x661 [ 148.583526] __might_resched+0x1af/0x1c8 [ 148.584678] blk_release_queue+0x24/0x109 [ 148.585861] kobject_cleanup+0xc9/0xfe [ 148.586979] blkg_free+0x46/0x63 [ 148.587962] rcu_do_batch+0x1c5/0x3db [ 148.589057] rcu_core+0x14a/0x184 [ 148.590065] __do_softirq+0x14d/0x2c7 [ 148.591167] __irq_exit_rcu+0x7a/0xd4 [ 148.592264] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x82/0xa5 [ 148.593649] </IRQ> [ 148.594354] <TASK> [ 148.595058] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: 0a9a25ca7843 ("block: let blkcg_gq grab request queue's refcnt") Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20220322093322.GA27283@lst.de/ Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220323011308.2010380-1-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 
blkg_free() can currently be called in atomic context, either spin lock is
held, or run in rcu callback. Meantime either request queue's release
handler or ->pd_free_fn can sleep.

Fix the issue by scheduling a work function for freeing blkcg_gq the
instance.

[  148.553894] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at block/blk-sysfs.c:767
[  148.557381] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/13
[  148.560741] preempt_count: 101, expected: 0
[  148.562577] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[  148.564379] 1 lock held by swapper/13/0:
[  148.566127]  #0: ffffffff82615f80 (rcu_callback){....}-{0:0}, at: rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x1b
[  148.569640] Preemption disabled at:
[  148.569642] [<ffffffff8123f9c3>] ___slab_alloc+0x554/0x661
[  148.573559] CPU: 13 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/13 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.17.0_up+ #110
[  148.576834] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014
[  148.579768] Call Trace:
[  148.580567]  <IRQ>
[  148.581262]  dump_stack_lvl+0x56/0x7c
[  148.582367]  ? ___slab_alloc+0x554/0x661
[  148.583526]  __might_resched+0x1af/0x1c8
[  148.584678]  blk_release_queue+0x24/0x109
[  148.585861]  kobject_cleanup+0xc9/0xfe
[  148.586979]  blkg_free+0x46/0x63
[  148.587962]  rcu_do_batch+0x1c5/0x3db
[  148.589057]  rcu_core+0x14a/0x184
[  148.590065]  __do_softirq+0x14d/0x2c7
[  148.591167]  __irq_exit_rcu+0x7a/0xd4
[  148.592264]  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x82/0xa5
[  148.593649]  </IRQ>
[  148.594354]  <TASK>
[  148.595058]  asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 0a9a25ca7843 ("block: let blkcg_gq grab request queue's refcnt")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20220322093322.GA27283@lst.de/
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220323011308.2010380-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>