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    block: free merged request in the caller · e4d750c9
    Jens Axboe authored
    If we end up doing a request-to-request merge when we have completed
    a bio-to-request merge, we free the request from deep down in that
    path. For blk-mq-sched, the merge path has to hold the appropriate
    lock, but we don't need it for freeing the request. And in fact
    holding the lock is problematic, since we are now calling the
    mq sched put_rq_private() hook with the lock held. Other call paths
    do not hold this lock.
    
    Fix this inconsistency by ensuring that the caller frees a merged
    request. Then we can do it outside of the lock, making it both more
    efficient and fixing the blk-mq-sched problem of invoking parts of
    the scheduler with an unknown lock state.
    Reported-by: default avatarPaolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
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