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    block: an exiting task should be allowed to create io_context · fd638368
    Tejun Heo authored
    While fixing io_context creation / task exit race condition,
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     "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>
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