Hello,
This is an updated version of dm/md sysfs dependency tree patch set.
For example, if dm-0 maps to sda, we'll have following symlinks;
/sys/block/dm-0/slaves/sda --> /sys/block/sda
/sys/block/sda/holders/dm-0 --> /sys/block/dm-0
Thanks for Alasdair, Neil and Greg for reviews and comments.
I think the patches get much better shape than before.
I'm happy to hear any other comments for these patches.
Patches included are:
1. [PATCH 1/6] kobject_add_dir
Adding kobject_add_dir() function which creates
a subdirectory for a given kobject.
2. [PATCH 2/6] add holders/slaves subdirectory to /sys/block
Creating "slaves" and "holders" directories in /sys/block/<disk>,
creating "holders" directory under /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>
3. [PATCH 3/6] bd_claim_by_kobject
Adding bd_claim_by_kobject() function which takes kobject as
additional signature of holder device and creates sysfs symlinks
between holder device and claimed device.
bd_release_from_kobject() is a counter part of bd_claim_by_kobject.
4. [PATCH 4/6] bd_claim_by_disk
Variants which take gendisk instead of kobject
and do kobject_{get,put}(&gendisk->kobj).
5. [PATCH 5/6] md to use bd_claim_by_disk
Use bd_claim_by_disk.
6. [PATCH 6/6] dm to use bd_claim_by_disk
Use bd_claim_by_disk.
Patches from 1 to 5 work both on 2.6.16-rc5 and 2.6.16-rc5-mm2.
I hope them to be included in mm if there's no problem.
Patch 6 depends on dm-table-store-md.patch in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/.
The dm-table-store-md.patch might theoretically require some
locking/release-ordering fixes in dm core which is under
investigation though it's separate issue.
Thanks,
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Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Solutions (America), Inc.
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