block: fix potential deadlock while running nr_hw_queue update
Move scheduler tags (sched_tags) allocation and deallocation outside both the ->elevator_lock and ->freeze_lock when updating nr_hw_queues. This change breaks the dependency chain from the percpu allocator lock to the elevator lock, helping to prevent potential deadlocks, as observed in the reported lockdep splat[1]. This commit introduces batch allocation and deallocation helpers for sched_tags, which are now used from within __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues routine while iterating through the tagset. With this change, all sched_tags memory management is handled entirely outside the ->elevator_lock and the ->freeze_lock context, thereby eliminating the lock dependency that could otherwise manifest during nr_hw_queues updates. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/ Reported-by:Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/ Reviewed-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by:
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730074614.2537382-4-nilay@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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