Re: [PATCH] mtd: implement proper partition handling

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:43:02 +0100
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> wrote:

>  int del_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>  {
> -	struct mtd_part *slave, *next;
> -	int ret, err = 0;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	pr_info("Deleting MTD partitions on \"%s\":\n", mtd->name);
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&mtd_partitions_mutex);

Can we find a way to turn this global lock into a per-mtd-object lock?
It probably requires reworking the implementation to make lockdep
happy, but that should be doable.

> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(slave, next, &mtd_partitions, list)
> -		if (slave->parent == mtd) {
> -			ret = __mtd_del_partition(slave);
> -			if (ret < 0)
> -				err = ret;
> -		}
> +	ret = __del_mtd_partitions(mtd);
>  	mutex_unlock(&mtd_partitions_mutex);
>  
> -	return err;
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  

Do you have a good reason for creating __del_mtd_partitions()? Looks
like it's only used by del_mtd_partitions().