blkcg: make blkcg_gq's hierarchical

Currently a child blkg (blkcg_gq) can be created even if its parent
doesn't exist.  ie. Given a blkg, it's not guaranteed that its
ancestors will exist.  This makes it difficult to implement proper
hierarchy support for blkcg policies.

Always create blkgs recursively and make a child blkg hold a reference
to its parent.  blkg->parent is added so that finding the parent is
easy.  blkcg_parent() is also added in the process.

This change can be visible to userland.  e.g. while issuing IO in a
nested cgroup didn't affect the ancestors at all, now it will
initialize all ancestor blkgs and zero stats for the request_queue
will always appear on them.  While this is userland visible, this
shouldn't cause any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
index 24597309e23..b26ed58899f 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
@@ -94,8 +94,13 @@ struct blkcg_gq {
 	struct list_head		q_node;
 	struct hlist_node		blkcg_node;
 	struct blkcg			*blkcg;
+
+	/* all non-root blkcg_gq's are guaranteed to have access to parent */
+	struct blkcg_gq			*parent;
+
 	/* request allocation list for this blkcg-q pair */
 	struct request_list		rl;
+
 	/* reference count */
 	int				refcnt;
 
@@ -181,6 +186,19 @@ static inline struct blkcg *bio_blkcg(struct bio *bio)
 }
 
 /**
+ * blkcg_parent - get the parent of a blkcg
+ * @blkcg: blkcg of interest
+ *
+ * Return the parent blkcg of @blkcg.  Can be called anytime.
+ */
+static inline struct blkcg *blkcg_parent(struct blkcg *blkcg)
+{
+	struct cgroup *pcg = blkcg->css.cgroup->parent;
+
+	return pcg ? cgroup_to_blkcg(pcg) : NULL;
+}
+
+/**
  * blkg_to_pdata - get policy private data
  * @blkg: blkg of interest
  * @pol: policy of interest