Use the simpler mechanism attached to major_name to allocate a brd device when a currently unregistered minor is accessed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 21 ++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 9562ef598ae1f4..be3625acf67d7e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5766,11 +5766,12 @@ static int md_alloc(dev_t dev, char *name) return error; } -static struct kobject *md_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data) +static void md_probe(dev_t dev) { + if (MAJOR(dev) == MD_MAJOR && MINOR(dev) >= 512) + return; if (create_on_open) md_alloc(dev, NULL); - return NULL; } static int add_named_array(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) @@ -6536,7 +6537,7 @@ static void autorun_devices(int part) break; } - md_probe(dev, NULL, NULL); + md_probe(dev); mddev = mddev_find(dev); if (!mddev || !mddev->gendisk) { if (mddev) @@ -9548,18 +9549,15 @@ static int __init md_init(void) if (!md_misc_wq) goto err_rdev_misc_wq; - if ((ret = register_blkdev(MD_MAJOR, "md")) < 0) + ret = __register_blkdev(MD_MAJOR, "md", md_probe); + if (ret < 0) goto err_md; - if ((ret = register_blkdev(0, "mdp")) < 0) + ret = __register_blkdev(0, "mdp", md_probe); + if (ret < 0) goto err_mdp; mdp_major = ret; - blk_register_region(MKDEV(MD_MAJOR, 0), 512, THIS_MODULE, - md_probe, NULL, NULL); - blk_register_region(MKDEV(mdp_major, 0), 1UL<<MINORBITS, THIS_MODULE, - md_probe, NULL, NULL); - register_reboot_notifier(&md_notifier); raid_table_header = register_sysctl_table(raid_root_table); @@ -9826,9 +9824,6 @@ static __exit void md_exit(void) struct list_head *tmp; int delay = 1; - blk_unregister_region(MKDEV(MD_MAJOR,0), 512); - blk_unregister_region(MKDEV(mdp_major,0), 1U << MINORBITS); - unregister_blkdev(MD_MAJOR,"md"); unregister_blkdev(mdp_major, "mdp"); unregister_reboot_notifier(&md_notifier); -- 2.28.0