[PATCH v2 0/3] Badblock tracking for gendisks

[Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>]

v2:
  - In badblocks_free, make 'page' NULL (patch 1)
  - Move the core badblocks code to a new .c file (patch 1) (Jens)
  - Fix a sizeof usage in disk_alloc_badblocks (patch 2) (Dan)
  - Since disk_alloc_badblocks can fail, check disk->bb for NULL in the
    genhd wrappers (patch 2) (Jeff)
  - Update the md conversion to also ise the badblocks init and free
    functions (patch 3)
  - Remove the BB_* macros from md.h as they are now in badblocks.h (patch 3)

Patch 1 copies badblock management code into a header of its own,
making it generally available. It follows common libraries of code
such as linked lists, where anyone may embed a core data structure
in another place, and use the provided accessor functions to
manipulate the data.

Patch 2 adds badblock tracking to gendisks (in preparation for use
by NVDIMM devices). Right now, it is turned on unconditionally - I'd
appreciate comments on if that is the right path.

Patch 3 converts md over to use the new badblocks 'library'. I have
done some pretty simple testing on this - created a raid 1 device,
made sure the sysfs entries show up, and can be used to add and view
badblocks. A closer look by the md folks would be nice here.


Vishal Verma (3):
  badblocks: Add core badblock management code
  block: Add badblock management for gendisks
  md: convert to use the generic badblocks code

 block/Makefile            |   2 +-
 block/badblocks.c         | 523 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block/genhd.c             |  81 +++++++
 drivers/md/md.c           | 507 ++------------------------------------------
 drivers/md/md.h           |  40 +---
 include/linux/badblocks.h |  53 +++++
 include/linux/genhd.h     |   6 +
 7 files changed, 687 insertions(+), 525 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 block/badblocks.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/badblocks.h

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