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| author | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2024-02-05 12:05:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2024-02-25 12:05:28 +0100 |
| commit | 40ebc18b991bdb867bc693a4ac1b5d7db44838f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 961c6004ba64d9575d47201d83d33ff1bc97b39a /block/genhd.c | |
| parent | 6613476e225e090cc9aad49be7fa504e290dd33d (diff) | |
| parent | ab838b3fd9a442a62f36ea7eeb93e77259f787ce (diff) | |
Merge series 'Open block devices as files' of https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-0-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Pull block devices as files from Christian Brauner:
This opens block devices as files. Instead of introducing a separate
indirection into bdev_open_by_*() vis struct bdev_handle we can just
make bdev_file_open_by_*() return a struct file. Opening and closing a
block device from setup_bdev_super() and in all other places just
becomes equivalent to opening and closing a file.
This has held up in xfstests and in blktests so far and it seems stable
and clean. The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to
regular files is a win in and of itself imho. Added to that is the
ability to do away with struct bdev_handle completely and make various
low-level helpers private to the block layer.
All places were we currently stash a struct bdev_handle we just stash a
file and use an accessor such as file_bdev() akin to I_BDEV() to get to
the block device.
It's now also possible to use file->f_mapping as a replacement for
bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping and file->f_inode or file->f_mapping->host as
an alternative to bdev->bd_inode allowing us to significantly reduce or
even fully remove bdev->bd_inode in follow-up patches.
In addition, we could get rid of sb->s_bdev and various other places
that stash the block device directly and instead stash the block device
file. Again, this is follow-up work if we want this.
* series 'Open block devices as files' of https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-0-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org: (35 commits)
file: add alloc_file_pseudo_noaccount()
file: prepare for new helper
init: flush async file closing
block: remove bdev_handle completely
block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
reiserfs: port block device access to file
ocfs2: port block device access to file
nfs: port block device access to files
jfs: port block device access to file
f2fs: port block device access to files
ext4: port block device access to file
erofs: port device access to file
btrfs: port device access to file
bcachefs: port block device access to file
target: port block device access to file
s390: port block device access to file
nvme: port block device access to file
block2mtd: port device access to files
bcache: port block device access to files
...
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/genhd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/genhd.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index d74fb5b4ae68..a911d2969c07 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(disk_uevent); int disk_scan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, blk_mode_t mode) { - struct bdev_handle *handle; + struct file *file; int ret = 0; if (disk->flags & (GENHD_FL_NO_PART | GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) @@ -366,12 +366,12 @@ int disk_scan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, blk_mode_t mode) } set_bit(GD_NEED_PART_SCAN, &disk->state); - handle = bdev_open_by_dev(disk_devt(disk), mode & ~BLK_OPEN_EXCL, NULL, - NULL); - if (IS_ERR(handle)) - ret = PTR_ERR(handle); + file = bdev_file_open_by_dev(disk_devt(disk), mode & ~BLK_OPEN_EXCL, + NULL, NULL); + if (IS_ERR(file)) + ret = PTR_ERR(file); else - bdev_release(handle); + fput(file); /* * If blkdev_get_by_dev() failed early, GD_NEED_PART_SCAN is still set, |