On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 01:04:31PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > this is a v2 of the patch series which implements the idea of blkdev_get_by_*() > calls returning bdev_handle which is then passed to blkdev_put() [1]. This > makes the get and put calls for bdevs more obviously matching and allows us to > propagate context from get to put without having to modify all the users > (again!). In particular I need to propagate used open flags to blkdev_put() to > be able count writeable opens and add support for blocking writes to mounted > block devices. I'll send that series separately. > > The series is based on Christian's vfs tree as of yesterday as there is quite > some overlap. Patches have passed some reasonable testing - I've tested block > changes, md, dm, bcache, xfs, btrfs, ext4, swap. This obviously doesn't cover > everything so I'd like to ask respective maintainers to review / test their > changes. Thanks! I've pushed out the full branch to: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git bdev_handle > > to ease review / testing. Hmm... Completely Insane Idea(tm): how about turning that thing inside out and having your bdev_open_by... return an actual opened struct file? After all, we do that for sockets and pipes just fine and that's a whole lot hotter area. Suppose we leave blkdev_open()/blkdev_release() as-is. No need to mess with what we have for normal opened files for block devices. And have block_open_by_dev() that would find bdev, etc., same yours does and shove it into anon file. Paired with plain fput() - no need to bother with new primitives for closing. With a helper returning I_BDEV(bdev_file_inode(file)) to get from those to bdev. NOTE: I'm not suggesting replacing ->s_bdev with struct file * if we do that - we want that value cached, obviously. Just store both... Not saying it's a good idea, but... might be interesting to look into. Comments?
