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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Josef Bacik" <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	"Zefan Li" <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Dennis Zhou (Facebook)" <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-block v3 2/2] blk-cgroup: Flush stats at blkgs destruction path
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:30:59 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5jS825K7ej0jEV+@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221213184446.50181-3-longman@redhat.com>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 01:44:46PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * Flush all the non-empty percpu lockless lists so as to release
> +	 * the blkg references held by those lists which, in turn, may
> +	 * allow the blkgs to be freed and release their references to
> +	 * blkcg speeding up its freeing.
> +	 */

Can you mention the possible deadlock explicitly? This sounds more like an
optimization.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-13 18:44 [PATCH-block v3 0/2] blk-cgroup: Fix potential UAF & flush rstat " Waiman Long
2022-12-13 18:44 ` [PATCH-block v3 1/2] bdi, blk-cgroup: Fix potential UAF of blkcg Waiman Long
2022-12-13 19:29   ` Tejun Heo
2022-12-13 19:53     ` Waiman Long
2022-12-14 16:54       ` Jens Axboe
2022-12-14 16:55         ` Waiman Long
2022-12-13 18:44 ` [PATCH-block v3 2/2] blk-cgroup: Flush stats at blkgs destruction path Waiman Long
2022-12-13 19:30   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2022-12-14  1:58     ` Waiman Long

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