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Re: [PATCH 66/78] block: keep a block_device reference for each hd_struct



On 11/16/20 3:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
To simplify block device lookup and a few other upcomdin areas, make sure
that we always have a struct block_device available for each disk and
each partition.  The only downside of this is that each device and
partition uses a little more memories.  The upside will be that a lot of
code can be simplified.

With that all we need to look up the block device is to lookup the inode
and do a few sanity checks on the gendisk, instead of the separate lookup
for the gendisk.

As part of the change switch bdget() to only find existing block devices,
given that we know that the block_device structure must be allocated at
probe / partition scan time.

blk-cgroup needed a bit of a special treatment as the only place that
wanted to lookup a gendisk outside of the normal blkdev_get path.  It is
switched to lookup using the block device hash now that this is the
primary lookup path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
  block/blk-cgroup.c         |  42 ++++-----
  block/blk-iocost.c         |  36 +++----
  block/blk.h                |   1 -
  block/genhd.c              | 188 +++----------------------------------
  block/partitions/core.c    |  28 +++---
  fs/block_dev.c             | 133 +++++++++++++++-----------
  include/linux/blk-cgroup.h |   4 +-
  include/linux/blkdev.h     |   3 +
  include/linux/genhd.h      |   4 +-
  9 files changed, 153 insertions(+), 286 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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