linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] md: Unify mddev destruction paths

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:36:27 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>, shli@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: Unify mddev destruction paths

On 6/7/18 6:52 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Previously, mddev_put() had a couple different paths for freeing a
> mddev, due to the fact that the kobject wasn't initialized when the
> mddev was first allocated. If we move the kobject_init() to when it's
> first allocated and just use kobject_add() later, we can clean all this
> up.
> 
> This also removes a hack in mddev_put() to avoid freeing biosets under a
> spinlock, which involved copying biosets on the stack after the reset
> bioset_init() changes.

Looks good to me, much nicer than the previous hack.

-- 
Jens Axboe