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* use regular gendisk registration in device mapper
@ 2021-07-25  5:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 58+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2021-07-25  5:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe, Mike Snitzer; +Cc: dm-devel, linux-block

Hi all,

The device mapper code currently has a somewhat odd gendisk registration
scheme where it calls add_disk early, but uses a special flag to skip the
"queue registration", which is a major part of add_disk.  This series
improves the block layer holder tracking to work on an entirely
unregistered disk and thus allows device mapper to use the normal scheme
of calling add_disk when it is ready to accept I/O.

Note that this leads to a user visible change - the sysfs attributes on
the disk and the dm directory hanging off it are not only visible once
the initial table is loaded.  This did not make a different to my testing
using dmsetup and the lvm2 tools.

Diffstat:
 block/Kconfig             |    4 +
 block/Makefile            |    1 
 block/elevator.c          |    1 
 block/genhd.c             |   42 +++++------
 block/holder.c            |  167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/md/Kconfig        |    2 
 drivers/md/bcache/Kconfig |    1 
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c     |    4 -
 drivers/md/dm-rq.c        |    1 
 drivers/md/dm.c           |   32 +++-----
 fs/block_dev.c            |  145 ---------------------------------------
 include/linux/blk_types.h |    3 
 include/linux/genhd.h     |   19 ++---
 13 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 203 deletions(-)

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2021-07-25  5:54 use regular gendisk registration in device mapper Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] block: make the block holder code optional Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:25   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:25     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 2/8] block: remove the extra kobject reference in bd_link_disk_holder Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:27   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:27     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 3/8] block: look up holders by bdev Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 4/8] block: support delayed holder registration Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-27 16:06   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 16:06     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-28  6:54     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28  6:54       ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:32   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:32     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: cleanup cleanup_mapped_device Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:33   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:33     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 6/8] dm: move setting md->type into dm_setup_md_queue Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:34   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:34     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 7/8] dm: delay registering the gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:36   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:36     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-25  5:54 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove support for delayed queue registrations Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25  5:54   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:37   ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29 16:37     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 15:58 ` use regular gendisk registration in device mapper Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 15:58   ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 16:02   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-27 16:02     ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-27 16:18     ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 16:18       ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 20:38       ` Milan Broz
2021-07-27 20:38         ` Milan Broz
2021-07-28  7:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28  7:06           ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28  8:37           ` Milan Broz
2021-07-28  8:37             ` Milan Broz
2021-07-28 11:24             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-28 11:24               ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 15:01               ` Milan Broz
2021-07-29 15:01                 ` Milan Broz
2021-07-28 16:17         ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-28 16:17           ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer
2021-07-29  7:50           ` Milan Broz
2021-07-29  7:50             ` [dm-devel] " Milan Broz
2021-07-27 22:52       ` Mike Snitzer
2021-07-27 22:52         ` [dm-devel] " Mike Snitzer

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