From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] block: introduce holder ops
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 10:06:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230517080613.GA31383@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230517-einreden-dermatologisch-9c6a3327a689@brauner>
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:57:55AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> BTW, why is there no code to lookup a bdev by O_PATH fd? It seems weird
> that a lot of ioctls pass the device path to the kernel (btrfs comes to
> mind). I can see certain things that would make this potentially a bit
> tricky e.g., you'd not have access to the path/name of the device if you
> want to show it somewhere such as in mountinfo but nothing that makes it
> impossible afaict.
As far as I can tell you should be able to hold a reference to a block
device file descriptor with an O_PATH fd. Or did I miss something
that specifically prohibits that?
> Yeah, I'll get to this soon. Josef has mentioned that he'll convert
> btrfs to the new mount api this cycle and we have that recorded on
> video. And I think that otherwise all block device based filesystems
> might have already been converted.
Btrfs is the last "big" file system, but there plenty more. A quick
grep for mount_bdev fills more than a page on my terminal..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-17 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-05 17:51 introduce bdev holder ops and a file system shutdown method Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/9] block: consolidate the shutdown logic in blk_mark_disk_dead and del_gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-07 19:08 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-09 13:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/9] block: avoid repeated work in blk_mark_disk_dead Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-07 19:05 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-16 16:29 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 3/9] block: factor out a bd_end_claim helper from blkdev_put Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-07 19:08 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-16 16:29 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 4/9] block: turn bdev_lock into a mutex Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-07 19:09 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-16 16:24 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 5/9] block: introduce holder ops Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 18:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-09 13:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-09 22:19 ` Dave Chinner
2023-05-10 1:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-10 15:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-07 19:12 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-16 11:02 ` Ming Lei
2023-05-16 14:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-17 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-16 16:00 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-17 7:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-17 7:57 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-17 8:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-05-17 8:42 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-17 12:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-17 13:14 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-17 14:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18 8:13 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-18 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-18 13:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 6/9] block: add a mark_dead holder operation Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 18:37 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-09 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-07 19:19 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-09 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-16 16:17 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 7/9] fs: add a method to shut down the file system Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 18:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-07 19:20 ` Jan Kara
2023-05-16 16:20 ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-17 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: wire up sops->shutdown Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 18:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-09 13:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 17:51 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: wire up the ->mark_dead holder operation for log and RT devices Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-05 18:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-05-08 15:20 ` introduce bdev holder ops and a file system shutdown method Christoph Hellwig
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