Hello,
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:29:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I was wondering whether losing the stale bdev flushing in bd_acquire() would
> > cause user-visible behavior changes but can't see how it would given that
> > userland has no way of holding onto a specific instance of bl
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:37:05PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:27:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Switch the block device lookup interfaces to directly work with a dev_t
> > so that struct block_device references are only acquired by the
> > blkdev_get variants (an
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:27:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Switch the block device lookup interfaces to directly work with a dev_t
> so that struct block_device references are only acquired by the
> blkdev_get variants (and the blk-cgroup special case). This means that
> we not don't nee
On 11/24/20 9:27 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Switch the block device lookup interfaces to directly work with a dev_t
> so that struct block_device references are only acquired by the
> blkdev_get variants (and the blk-cgroup special case). This means that
> we not don't need an extra reference
