Re: [PATCH 05/10] block: do not reassig ->bi_bdev when partition remapping

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On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:05 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There is no good reason to reassign ->bi_bdev when remapping the
> partition-relative block number to the device wide one, as all the
> information required by the drivers comes from the gendisk anyway.
>
> Keeping the original ->bi_bdev alive will allow to greatly simplify
> the partition-away I/O accounting.

This one causes boot failures for me on my laptop...

-- 
Jens Axboe




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