blkcg: convert blkg_lookup_create to find closest blkg

There are several scenarios where blkg_lookup_create can fail. Examples
include the blkcg dying, request_queue is dying, or simply being OOM. At
the end of the day, most handle this by simply falling back to the
q->root_blkg and calling it a day.

This patch implements the notion of closest blkg. During
blkg_lookup_create, if it fails to create, return the closest blkg
found or the q->root_blkg. blkg_try_get_closest is introduced and used
during association so a bio is always attached to a blkg.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 083f1c9cde0a..bfd41e8b53a8 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -2007,21 +2007,24 @@ int bio_associate_blkcg(struct bio *bio, struct cgroup_subsys_state *blkcg_css)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bio_associate_blkcg);
 
 /**
- * bio_associate_blkg - associate a bio with the specified blkg
+ * bio_associate_blkg - associate a bio with the a blkg
  * @bio: target bio
  * @blkg: the blkg to associate
  *
- * Associate @bio with the blkg specified by @blkg.  This is the queue specific
- * blkcg information associated with the @bio, a reference will be taken on the
- * @blkg and will be freed when the bio is freed.
+ * This tries to associate @bio with the specified blkg.  Association failure
+ * is handled by walking up the blkg tree.  Therefore, the blkg associated can
+ * be anything between @blkg and the root_blkg.  This situation only happens
+ * when a cgroup is dying and then the remaining bios will spill to the closest
+ * alive blkg.
+ *
+ * A reference will be taken on the @blkg and will be released when @bio is
+ * freed.
  */
 int bio_associate_blkg(struct bio *bio, struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
 {
 	if (unlikely(bio->bi_blkg))
 		return -EBUSY;
-	if (!blkg_try_get(blkg))
-		return -ENODEV;
-	bio->bi_blkg = blkg;
+	bio->bi_blkg = blkg_try_get_closest(blkg);
 	return 0;
 }