Re: [PATCH 3/8] block: move bd_mutex to struct gendisk

Roger Pau Monné
2021-05-28T07:35:09Z

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 08:12:56AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Replace the per-block device bd_mutex with a per-gendisk open_mutex,
> thus simplifying locking wherever we deal with partitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 2 +-
> block/genhd.c | 7 ++---
> block/partitions/core.c | 24 ++++++++---------
> drivers/block/loop.c | 14 +++++-----
> drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 8 +++---

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Thanks, Roger.