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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] block: simplify holder symlink handling
On Mon, Nov 01 2010 at 12:15pm -0400,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Code to manage symlinks in /sys/block/*/{holders|slaves} are overly
> complex with multiple holder considerations, redundant extra
> references to all involved kobjects, unused generic kobject holder
> support and unnecessary mixup with bd_claim/release functionalities.
>
> Strip it down to what's necessary (single gendisk holder) and make it
> use a separate interface. This is a step for cleaning up
> bd_claim/release. This patch makes dm-table slightly more complex but
> it will be simplified again with further changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

> ---
> drivers/md/dm-table.c | 23 +++-
> drivers/md/md.c | 4 +-
> fs/block_dev.c | 322 +++++++------------------------------------------
> include/linux/fs.h | 16 ++-
> 4 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 291 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> index 90267f8..2c876ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
> @@ -328,12 +328,22 @@ static int open_dev(struct dm_dev_internal *d, dev_t dev,
> bdev = open_by_devnum(dev, d->dm_dev.mode);
> if (IS_ERR(bdev))
> return PTR_ERR(bdev);
> - r = bd_claim_by_disk(bdev, _claim_ptr, dm_disk(md));
> - if (r)
> +
> + r = bd_claim(bdev, _claim_ptr);
> + if (r) {
> blkdev_put(bdev, d->dm_dev.mode);
> - else
> - d->dm_dev.bdev = bdev;
> - return r;
> + return r;
> + }
> +
> + r = bd_link_disk_holder(bdev, dm_disk(md));
> + if (r) {
> + bd_release(bdev);
> + blkdev_put(bdev, d->dm_dev.mode);
> + return r;
> + }
> +
> + d->dm_dev.bdev = bdev;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -344,7 +354,8 @@ static void close_dev(struct dm_dev_internal *d, struct mapped_device *md)
> if (!d->dm_dev.bdev)
> return;
>
> - bd_release_from_disk(d->dm_dev.bdev, dm_disk(md));
> + bd_unlink_disk_holder(d->dm_dev.bdev);
> + bd_release(d->dm_dev.bdev);
> blkdev_put(d->dm_dev.bdev, d->dm_dev.mode);
> d->dm_dev.bdev = NULL;
> }


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