On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 07:50:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index 39ca97b0edc6..2c00bc3261d9 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -335,52 +335,22 @@ static int blk_mangle_minor(int minor)
<-- snip -->
> -int blk_alloc_devt(struct block_device *bdev, dev_t *devt)
> +int blk_alloc_ext_minor(void)
> {
> - struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
> int idx;
>
> - /* in consecutive minor range? */
> - if (bdev->bd_partno < disk->minors) {
> - *devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor + bdev->bd_partno);
> - return 0;
> - }
> -
It is not obviously clear to me, why this was part of add_disk()
path, and ...
> diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
> index dc60ecf46fe6..504297bdc8bf 100644
> --- a/block/partitions/core.c
> +++ b/block/partitions/core.c
> @@ -379,9 +380,15 @@ static struct block_device *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
> pdev->type = &part_type;
> pdev->parent = ddev;
>
> - err = blk_alloc_devt(bdev, &devt);
> - if (err)
> - goto out_put;
> + /* in consecutive minor range? */
> + if (bdev->bd_partno < disk->minors) {
> + devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor + bdev->bd_partno);
> + } else {
> + err = blk_alloc_ext_minor();
> + if (err < 0)
> + goto out_put;
> + devt = MKDEV(BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR, err);
> + }
> pdev->devt = devt;
>
> /* delay uevent until 'holders' subdir is created */
... and why we only add this here now.
Other than that, this looks like a super nice cleanup!
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Luis
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