Re: [PATCH 06/12] fs: use the super_block as holder when mounting file systems

Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-05T08:36:27Z

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:33:30PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> As a side note, after this patch we can also remove bdev->bd_super and
> transition the two real users (mark_buffer_write_io_error() and two places
> in ocfs2) to use bd_holder. Ext4 also uses bd_super but there it is really
> pointless as we have the superblock directly available in that function
> anyway.

I actually have a series to kill bd_super, but it uses b_assoc_map
as the replacement, as nothing in buffer.c should poke into the holder
and the buffer_head codes uses b_assoc_map a lot anyway. Let me rebase
it and send it out.