On 2020/1/15 10:27, Ming Lei wrote: > >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_nr, "Maximum number of brd devices"); >> >> unsigned long rd_size = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE; >> module_param(rd_size, ulong, 0444); >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_size, "Size of each RAM disk in kbytes."); >> >> -static int max_part = 1; >> -module_param(max_part, int, 0444); >> +static unsigned int max_part = 1; >> +module_param(max_part, uint, 0444); > > The above change isn't needed. Thanks for your suggestion. I will remove that in v4 patch. > >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_part, "Num Minors to reserve between devices"); >> >> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); >> @@ -393,7 +393,14 @@ static struct brd_device *brd_alloc(int i) >> if (!disk) >> goto out_free_queue; >> disk->major = RAMDISK_MAJOR; >> - disk->first_minor = i * max_part; >> + /* >> + * Clear .minors when running out of consecutive minor space since >> + * GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT is set, and we can allocate from extended devt. >> + */ >> + if ((i * disk->minors) & ~MINORMASK) >> + disk->minors = 0; >> + else >> + disk->first_minor = i * disk->minors; > > The above looks a bit ugly, one nice way could be to change in > brd_alloc(): > > disk = brd->brd_disk = alloc_disk(((i * max_part) & ~MINORMASK) ? > 0 : max_part); I will change it as your suggestion. > >> disk->fops = &brd_fops; >> disk->private_data = brd; >> disk->queue = brd->brd_queue; >> @@ -468,6 +475,21 @@ static struct kobject *brd_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data) >> return kobj; >> } >> >> +static inline void brd_check_and_reset_par(void) >> +{ >> + if (unlikely(!rd_nr)) >> + rd_nr = 1; > > zero rd_nr should work as expected, given user can create dev file via > mknod, and brd_probe() will be called for populate brd disk/queue when > the disk file is opened. > >> +static inline void brd_check_and_reset_par(void) >> +{ >> + if (unlikely(!rd_nr)) >> + rd_nr = 1; >> + >> + if (unlikely(!max_part)) >> + max_part = 1; > > Another limit is that 'max_part' needs to be divided exactly by (1U << > MINORBITS), something like: > > max_part = 1UL << fls(max_part) Do we have to limit that 'max_part' needs to be divided exactly by (1U << > MINORBITS)? As your suggestion, the i * max_part is larger than MINORMASK, we can allocate from extended devt. Thanks, Zhiqiang Liu