Re: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: remove unused blk_queue_for_each_rl stub

Tang Yizhou <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:17:57 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.cgroups,org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17/7/26 6:20 pm, Tao Cui wrote:
> From: Tao Cui <[email protected]>
> 
> blk_queue_for_each_rl() was added by commit a051661ca6d1 ("blkcg:
> implement per-blkg request allocation") to iterate over the root request
> list and per-blkg request lists for the legacy (non-blk-mq) request
> allocation path.  The request_list code, including q->root_rl from
> struct request_queue, was later removed in 2018 by commit db6d99523560
> ("block: remove request_list code").
> 
> The macro definition left behind in the !CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP fallback
> branch of the private block/blk-cgroup.h header now references the
> removed q->root_rl field, and has no callers in-tree (it would fail to
> compile if expanded, so it cannot have any out-of-tree users either).
> 
> Remove the dead stub.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/blk-cgroup.h | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> index 615390f751aa..6a309d2d3db5 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> @@ -500,9 +500,6 @@ static inline void blkg_put(struct blkcg_gq *blkg) { }
>  static inline void blk_cgroup_bio_start(struct bio *bio) { }
>  static inline bool blk_cgroup_mergeable(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio) { return true; }
>  
> -#define blk_queue_for_each_rl(rl, q)	\
> -	for ((rl) = &(q)->root_rl; (rl); (rl) = NULL)
> -
>  #endif	/* CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP */
>  
>  #endif /* _BLK_CGROUP_PRIVATE_H */

Reviewed-by: Tang Yizhou <[email protected]>

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Best Regards,
Yi