[PATCH 4/8] block: add a store_limit operations for sysfs entries

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 01:21:14PM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/7/25 12:55 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 07:30:36AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> De-duplicate the code for updating queue limits by adding a store_limit
> >> method that allows having common code handle the actual queue limits
> >> update.
> >>
> >> Note that this is a pure refactoring patch and does not address the
> >> existing freeze vs limits lock order problem in the refactored code,
> >> which will be addressed next.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

...

> > Order between freeze and ->sysfs_lock is changed, and it may cause new
> > lockdep warning because we may freeze queue first before acquiring
> > ->sysfs_lock in del_gendisk().
> > 
> On contrary, in elevator_disable() and elevator_switch() we acquire 
> ->sysfs_lock first before freezing the queue. I think this is a mess and 
> we need to fix ordering. We need to decide ordering rules. IMO, the 
> correct order should be to acquire ->sysfs_lock before freezing queue. 
> Likewise with this patch now we acquire ->limits_lock before freezing the 
> queue.

__blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() freezes queue before acquiring ->syfs_lock too.

So yes, it is a mess wrt. order between ->sysfs_lock and freezing queue.


Thanks,
Ming