From 3d48749d93a3dce732dd30a14002ab90ec4355f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:15:25 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] block: ioc_task_link() can't fail ioc_task_link() is used to share %current's ioc on clone. If %current->io_context is set, %current is guaranteed to have refcount on the ioc and, thus, ioc_task_link() can't fail. Replace error checking in ioc_task_link() with WARN_ON_ONCE() and make it just increment refcount and nr_tasks. -v2: Description typo fix (Vivek). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/iocontext.h | 16 +++++----------- kernel/fork.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/iocontext.h b/include/linux/iocontext.h index 1a301806303..81a8870ac22 100644 --- a/include/linux/iocontext.h +++ b/include/linux/iocontext.h @@ -120,18 +120,12 @@ struct io_context { struct work_struct release_work; }; -static inline struct io_context *ioc_task_link(struct io_context *ioc) +static inline void ioc_task_link(struct io_context *ioc) { - /* - * if ref count is zero, don't allow sharing (ioc is going away, it's - * a race). - */ - if (ioc && atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&ioc->refcount)) { - atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks); - return ioc; - } - - return NULL; + WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_long_read(&ioc->refcount) <= 0); + WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&ioc->nr_tasks) <= 0); + atomic_long_inc(&ioc->refcount); + atomic_inc(&ioc->nr_tasks); } struct task_struct; diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index b77fd559c78..a1b632713e4 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -901,9 +901,8 @@ static int copy_io(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk) * Share io context with parent, if CLONE_IO is set */ if (clone_flags & CLONE_IO) { - tsk->io_context = ioc_task_link(ioc); - if (unlikely(!tsk->io_context)) - return -ENOMEM; + ioc_task_link(ioc); + tsk->io_context = ioc; } else if (ioprio_valid(ioc->ioprio)) { new_ioc = get_task_io_context(tsk, GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE); if (unlikely(!new_ioc))