The patch titled
bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue.patch
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Subject: bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Devices which share the same queue, like floppies and mtd devices, get
registered multiple times in the bdi interface, but bdi accounts only the
last registered device of the devices sharing one queue.
On remove, all earlier registered devices leak, stay around in sysfs, and
cause "duplicate filename" errors if the devices are re-created.
This prevents the creation of multiple bdi interfaces per queue, and the
bdi device will carry the dev_t name of the block device which is the
first one registered, of the pool of devices using the same queue.
Tested-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/backing-dev.c~bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue mm/backing-dev.c
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c~bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue
+++ a/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info
int ret = 0;
struct device *dev;
+ if (bdi->dev)
+ goto exit;
+
va_start(args, fmt);
dev = device_create_vargs(bdi_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue.patch
bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue-fix.patch
linux-next.patch
rtc-struct-device-replace-bus_id-with-dev_name-dev_set_name.patch
edac-struct-device-replace-bus_id-with-dev_name-dev_set_name.patch
edac-struct-device-replace-bus_id-with-dev_name-dev_set_name-checkpatch-fixes.patch
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