On 1/25/21 10:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:53:36AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:05 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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...
> 
> Any output to share?  Details of the config?

.config attached - hard to share any output, as it seems to load the
kernel fine, but latter parts of the boot process end up with errors
after the screen blanks. It's a laptop, so nothing fancy in terms of
logging. FWIW, it did boot on my test box.

Let me try and do a video...

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Jens Axboe