From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 (RESEND)] brd: reduce the brd_devices_mutex scope
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 07:28:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3365e67-8e85-13e4-f202-04d0eb47513c@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d79f288b-3968-71ca-c9b2-49c0ac6940b6@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
On 10/2/21 3:19 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> As with commit 8b52d8be86d72308 ("loop: reorder loop_exit"),
> unregister_blkdev() needs to be called first in order to avoid calling
> brd_alloc() from brd_probe() after brd_del_one() from brd_exit(). Then,
> we can avoid holding global mutex during add_disk()/del_gendisk() as with
> commit 1c500ad706383f1a ("loop: reduce the loop_ctl_mutex scope").
Applied for 5.16, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
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2021-10-02 9:19 [PATCH v2 (RESEND)] brd: reduce the brd_devices_mutex scope Tetsuo Handa
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