delayacct: clear right task's flag after blkio completes
authorYafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 May 2021 01:05:00 +0000 (18:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 May 2021 07:26:32 +0000 (00:26 -0700)
commit3d1c7fd97e4c5e54034231cd11319079dfaed60e
tree67646d7c01ebe0a3f3b02a0e9eae55e9be9730d0
parent6f1f942cd5fbbe308f912fc84e3f10fbc8113a68
delayacct: clear right task's flag after blkio completes

When I was implementing a latency analyzer tool by using task->delays
and other things, I found an issue in delayacct.  The issue is it should
clear the target's flag instead of current's in delayacct_blkio_end().

When I git blame delayacct, I found there're some similar issues we have
fixed in delayacct_blkio_end().

 - Commit c96f5471ce7d ("delayacct: Account blkio completion on the
   correct task") fixed the issue that it should account blkio
   completion on the target task instead of current.

 - Commit b512719f771a ("delayacct: fix crash in delayacct_blkio_end()
   after delayacct init failure") fixed the issue that it should check
   target task's delays instead of current task'.

It seems that delayacct_blkio_{begin, end} are error prone.

So I introduce a new paratmeter - the target task 'p' - to these
helpers.  After that change, the callsite will specifilly set the right
task, which should make it less error prone.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210414083720.24083-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Snyder <joshs@netflix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/delayacct.h
mm/memory.c