From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: jack@suse.cz, leochen@broadcom.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp,
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chris.mason@oracle.com, axboe@kernel.dk, tytso@mit.edu,
sbranden@broadcom.com, petero2@telia.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:04:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101104150400.GA32504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101103161059.GA13621@infradead.org>
On Wed, Nov 03 2010 at 12:10pm -0400,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:15:28PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > * blkdev_get() is extended to include exclusive access management.
> > @holder argument is added and, if is @FMODE_EXCL specified, it will
> > gain exclusive access atomically w.r.t. other exclusive accesses.
> >
> > * blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and
> > if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when
> > the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are
> > removed automatically.
>
> Could we get rid of FMODE_EXCL and just make a non-NULL holder field
> mean to open it exlusively (and pass a holder to the blkdev_put to
> release it)?
I agree that the need for a FMODE_EXCL flag is awkward. Christoph's
proposed change should clean things up nicely.
Other than that, for the DM bits:
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-04 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-01 16:15 [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] mtd: fix bdev exclusive open bugs in block2mtd::add_device() Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] btrfs: close_bdev_exclusive() should use the same @flags as the matching open_bdev_exclusive() Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: simplify holder symlink handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access Tejun Heo
2010-11-03 15:06 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-09 10:18 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-03 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-04 15:04 ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2010-11-09 10:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-09 10:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-01 16:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] block: reorganize claim/release implementation Tejun Heo
2010-11-01 19:49 ` [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Neil Brown
2010-11-03 15:53 ` [Drbd-dev] " Philipp Reisner
[not found] ` <1288628129-12811-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-04 15:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] block: simplify holder symlink handling Mike Snitzer
2010-11-11 17:10 ` [PATCH 6/5] block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get() Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 17:11 ` [PATCH 7/5] block: clean up blkdev_get() wrappers and their users Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 19:19 ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-11-11 17:14 ` [PATCHSET] block: clean up bdev claim/release handling Tejun Heo
2010-11-27 16:01 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-27 18:47 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <1288628129-12811-2-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
2010-11-13 10:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] mtd: fix bdev exclusive open bugs in block2mtd::add_device() Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 10:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-13 11:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2010-11-13 11:14 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-11-13 11:18 ` Tejun Heo
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