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Message-ID: <20230825-hubraum-gedreht-8c5c4db9330a@brauner> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:32:47 +0200 From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com, drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com, Gao Xiang <xiang@...nel.org>, Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@...os.com>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, Joern Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>, Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com>, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>, linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, "Md. Haris Iqbal" <haris.iqbal@...os.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>, target-devel@...r.kernel.org, Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/29] block: Make blkdev_get_by_*() return handle On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:48:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > this is a v3 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 today as there is quite > some overlap. Patches have passed some reasonable testing - I've tested block > changes, md, dm, bcache, xfs, btrfs, ext4, swap. More testing or review is > always welcome. 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. Since there were not many comments for v2 and > Christoph has acked the series I think we should start discussing how to merge > the series. Most collisions with this series seem to happen in the filesystems > area so VFS tree would seem as the least painful way to merge this. Jens, I really do like this series especially struct bdev_handle and moving the mode bits in there. I'll happily take this. So far there have only been minor things that can easily be fixed.
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