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Commit fd638368 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context

While fixing io_context creation / task exit race condition,
6e736be7

 "block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and
fix race on alloction" also prevented an exiting (%PF_EXITING) task
from creating its own io_context.  This is incorrect as exit path may
issue IOs, e.g. from exit_files(), and if those IOs are the first ones
issued by the task, io_context needs to be created to process the IOs.

Combined with the existing problem of io_context / io_cq creation
failure having the possibility of stalling IO, this problem results in
deterministic full IO lockup with certain workloads.

Fix it by allowing io_context creation regardless of %PF_EXITING for
%current.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 64c42998
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