Similarly to commit 457e490f2b741 ("blkcg: allocate struct blkcg_gq outside request queue spinlock"), blkg_create can also trigger occasional -ENOMEM failures at the radix insertion because any allocation inside blkg_create has to be non-blocking, making it more likely to fail. This causes trouble for userspace tools trying to configure io weights who need to deal with this condition. This patch reduces the occurrence of -ENOMEMs on this path by preloading the radix tree element on a GFP_KERNEL context, such that we guarantee the later non-blocking insertion won't fail. A similar solution exists in blkcg_init_queue for the same situation. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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