On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 06:09:54PM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:

There're few sysfs attributes(RW) whose store method is protected
with q->limits_lock, however the corresponding show method of these
attributes run holding q->sysfs_lock and that doesn't make sense
as ideally the show method of these attributes should also run
holding q->limits_lock instead of q->sysfs_lock. Hence update the
show method of these sysfs attributes so that reading of these
attributes acquire q->limits_lock instead of q->sysfs_lock.

Similarly, there're few sysfs attributes(RO) whose show method is
currently protected with q->sysfs_lock however updates to these
attributes could occur using atomic limit update APIs such as queue_
limits_start_update() and queue_limits_commit_update() which run
holding q->limits_lock. So that means that reading these attributes
holding q->sysfs_lock doesn't make sense. Hence update the show method
of these sysfs attributes(RO) such that they run with holding q->
limits_lock instead of q->sysfs_lock.

We have defined a new macro QUEUE_LIM_RO_ENTRY() which uses new ->show_
limit() method and it runs holding q->limits_lock. All existing sysfs
attributes(RO) which needs protection using q->limits_lock while
reading have been now updated to use this new macro for initialization.

Also, the existing QUEUE_LIM_RW_ENTRY() is updated to use new ->show_
limit() method for reading attributes instead of existing ->show()
method. As ->show_limit() runs holding q->limits_lock, the existing
sysfs attributes(RW) requiring protection are now inherently protected
using q->limits_lock instead of q->sysfs_lock.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <redacted>

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <redacted>


Thanks,
Ming