On 11/16/20 3:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
bd_mutex is primarily used for synchronizing the block device open and
release path, which recurses from partitions to the whole disk device.
The fact that we have two locks makes life unnecessarily complex due
to lock order constrains. Replace the t
bd_mutex is primarily used for synchronizing the block device open and
release path, which recurses from partitions to the whole disk device.
The fact that we have two locks makes life unnecessarily complex due
to lock order constrains. Replace the two levels of locking with a
single mutex in the
