+/* Unconfigure the I/O scheduler and dissociate from the cgroup controller. */
+void blk_exit_queue(struct request_queue *q)
+{
+ /*
+ * Since the I/O scheduler exit code may access cgroup information,
+ * perform I/O scheduler exit before disassociating from the block
+ * cgroup controller.
+ */
+ if (q->elevator) {
+ ioc_clear_queue(q);
+ elevator_exit(q, q->elevator);
+ q->elevator = NULL;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Remove all references to @q from the block cgroup controller before
+ * restoring @q->queue_lock to avoid that restoring this pointer causes
+ * e.g. blkcg_print_blkgs() to crash.
+ */
+ blkcg_exit_queue(q);
+
+ /*
+ * Since the cgroup code may dereference the @q->backing_dev_info
+ * pointer, only decrease its reference count after having removed the
+ * association with the block cgroup controller.
+ */
+ bdi_put(q->backing_dev_info);
+}
+