On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 09:14:50PM +0800, Zhiqiang Liu wrote: > > > 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. Exact dividing is for reserving same minors for all disks with RAMDISK_MAJOR, otherwise there is still chance to get same dev_t when adding partitions. Extended devt is for covering more disks, not related with 'max_part'. Thanks, Ming