On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 07:51, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > this series is the first part of cleaning up lifetimes and allocation of > the gendisk and request_queue structure. It adds a new interface to > allocate the disk and queue together for bio based drivers, and a helper > for cleanup/free them when a driver is unloaded or a device is removed. May I ask what else you have in the pipe for the next steps? The reason why I ask is that I am looking into some issues related to lifecycle problems of gendisk/mmc, typically triggered at SD/MMC card removal. > > Together this removes the need to treat the gendisk and request_queue > as separate entities for bio based drivers. > > Diffstat: > arch/m68k/emu/nfblock.c | 20 +--- > arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/simdisk.c | 29 +------ > block/blk-core.c | 1 > block/blk.h | 6 - > block/genhd.c | 149 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- > block/partitions/core.c | 19 ++-- > drivers/block/brd.c | 94 +++++++--------------- > drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c | 23 +---- > drivers/block/n64cart.c | 8 - > drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 38 ++++----- > drivers/block/pktcdvd.c | 11 -- > drivers/block/ps3vram.c | 31 +------ > drivers/block/rsxx/dev.c | 39 +++------ > drivers/block/rsxx/rsxx_priv.h | 1 > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 19 ---- > drivers/lightnvm/core.c | 24 +---- > drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 15 --- > drivers/md/dm.c | 16 +-- > drivers/md/md.c | 25 ++---- > drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c | 1 > drivers/nvdimm/blk.c | 27 +----- > drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 25 +----- > drivers/nvdimm/btt.h | 2 > drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 17 +--- > drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 1 > drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 46 +++-------- > drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c | 26 +----- > drivers/s390/block/xpram.c | 26 ++---- > include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 > include/linux/genhd.h | 23 +++++ > 30 files changed, 297 insertions(+), 466 deletions(-) This looks like a nice cleanup to me. Feel free to add, for the series: Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> Kind regards Uffe
