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authorDennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>2018-11-01 17:24:10 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-11-01 19:59:53 -0600
commitb5f2954d30c77649bce9c27e7a0a94299d9cfdf8 (patch)
treef5dd932dc087c3a60410e82c70be1daf92d350a7 /Documentation
parent153fcd5f6d93b8e1e4040b1337f564a10f8d93af (diff)
blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series
This reverts a series committed earlier due to null pointer exception bug report in [1]. It seems there are edge case interactions that I did not consider and will need some time to understand what causes the adverse interactions. The original series can be found in [2] with a follow up series in [3]. [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg20719.html [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180911184137.35897-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020185612.51587-1-dennis@kernel.org/ This reverts the following commits: d459d853c2ed, b2c3fa546705, 101246ec02b5, b3b9f24f5fcc, e2b0989954ae, f0fcb3ec89f3, c839e7a03f92, bdc2491708c4, 74b7c02a9bc1, 5bf9a1f3b4ef, a7b39b4e961c, 07b05bcc3213, 49f4c2dc2b50, 27e6fa996c53 Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index caf36105a1c7..184193bcb262 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1857,10 +1857,8 @@ following two functions.
wbc_init_bio(@wbc, @bio)
Should be called for each bio carrying writeback data and
- associates the bio with the inode's owner cgroup and the
- corresponding request queue. This must be called after
- a queue (device) has been associated with the bio and
- before submission.
+ associates the bio with the inode's owner cgroup. Can be
+ called anytime between bio allocation and submission.
wbc_account_io(@wbc, @page, @bytes)
Should be called for each data segment being written out.
@@ -1879,7 +1877,7 @@ the configuration, the bio may be executed at a lower priority and if
the writeback session is holding shared resources, e.g. a journal
entry, may lead to priority inversion. There is no one easy solution
for the problem. Filesystems can try to work around specific problem
-cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_create_blkg()
+cases by skipping wbc_init_bio() or using bio_associate_blkcg()
directly.