On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:54:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Jens, > > this series switches back from storing the gendisk + partno to storing > a block_device pointer in struct bio. The reason is two fold: for one > the new struct block_device actually is always available, removing the > need to avoid originally. Second the merge struct block_device is much > more useful than the old one, as storing it avoids the need for looking > up what used to be hd_struct during partition remapping and I/O > accounting. > > Note that this series depends on the posted but not merged > "block tracepoint cleanups" series. I'm late but everything looks good to me. So much better than the mess we had before. Thank you. The only thing I noticed is that blkdev_get_no_open() can now use kobject_get() instead of kobject_get_unless_zero() as bdev lookup is synchronously disabled before device_del(). -- tejun -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
