Commit 04225d13 authored by Nilay Shroff's avatar Nilay Shroff Committed by Jens Axboe
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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: default avatarStefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@linux.ibm.com/


Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250730074614.2537382-4-nilay@linux.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent f5a6604f
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