The only thing in blkcg_bio_issue_check that needs to be under rcu_read_lock is blk_throtl_bio, so move the locking there. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>