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    block: fix default IO priority handling again · e589f464
    Jan Kara authored
    Commit e70344c0 ("block: fix default IO priority handling")
    introduced an inconsistency in get_current_ioprio() that tasks without
    IO context return IOPRIO_DEFAULT priority while tasks with freshly
    allocated IO context will return 0 (IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE/0) IO priority.
    Tasks without IO context used to be rare before 5a9d041b ("block:
    move io_context creation into where it's needed") but after this commit
    they became common because now only BFQ IO scheduler setups task's IO
    context. Similar inconsistency is there for get_task_ioprio() so this
    inconsistency is now exposed to userspace and userspace will see
    different IO priority for tasks operating on devices with BFQ compared
    to devices without BFQ. Furthemore the changes done by commit
    e70344c0 change the behavior when no IO priority is set for BFQ IO
    scheduler which is also documented in ioprio_set(2) manpage:
    
    "If no I/O scheduler has been set for a thread, then by default the I/O
    priority will follow the CPU nice value (setpriority(2)).  In Linux
    kernels before version 2.6.24, once an I/O priority had been set using
    ioprio_set(), there was no way to reset the I/O scheduling behavior to
    the default. Since Linux 2.6.24, specifying ioprio as 0 can be used to
    reset to the default I/O scheduling behavior."
    
    So make sure we default to IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE as used to be the case
    before commit e70344c0. Also cleanup alloc_io_context() to
    explicitely set this IO priority for the allocated IO context to avoid
    future surprises. Note that we tweak ioprio_best() to maintain
    ioprio_get(2) behavior and make this commit easily backportable.
    
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: e70344c0 ("block: fix default IO priority handling")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623074840.5960-1-jack@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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