[PATCH 2/5] virtio_blk: simplify refcounting

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

Implement the ->free_disk method to free the virtio_blk structure only
once the last gendisk reference goes away instead of keeping a local
refcount.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 64 +++++++-------------------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index c443cd64fc9b4..2d939ac1508c1 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -69,13 +69,6 @@ struct virtio_blk {
 	/* Process context for config space updates */
 	struct work_struct config_work;
 
-	/*
-	 * Tracks references from block_device_operations open/release and
-	 * virtio_driver probe/remove so this object can be freed once no
-	 * longer in use.
-	 */
-	refcount_t refs;
-
 	/* What host tells us, plus 2 for header & tailer. */
 	unsigned int sg_elems;
 
@@ -391,43 +384,6 @@ static int virtblk_get_id(struct gendisk *disk, char *id_str)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static void virtblk_get(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
-{
-	refcount_inc(&vblk->refs);
-}
-
-static void virtblk_put(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
-{
-	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&vblk->refs)) {
-		ida_simple_remove(&vd_index_ida, vblk->index);
-		mutex_destroy(&vblk->vdev_mutex);
-		kfree(vblk);
-	}
-}
-
-static int virtblk_open(struct block_device *bd, fmode_t mode)
-{
-	struct virtio_blk *vblk = bd->bd_disk->private_data;
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	mutex_lock(&vblk->vdev_mutex);
-
-	if (vblk->vdev)
-		virtblk_get(vblk);
-	else
-		ret = -ENXIO;
-
-	mutex_unlock(&vblk->vdev_mutex);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static void virtblk_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
-{
-	struct virtio_blk *vblk = disk->private_data;
-
-	virtblk_put(vblk);
-}
-
 /* We provide getgeo only to please some old bootloader/partitioning tools */
 static int virtblk_getgeo(struct block_device *bd, struct hd_geometry *geo)
 {
@@ -460,11 +416,19 @@ static int virtblk_getgeo(struct block_device *bd, struct hd_geometry *geo)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static void virtblk_free_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
+{
+	struct virtio_blk *vblk = disk->private_data;
+
+	ida_simple_remove(&vd_index_ida, vblk->index);
+	mutex_destroy(&vblk->vdev_mutex);
+	kfree(vblk);
+}
+
 static const struct block_device_operations virtblk_fops = {
-	.owner  = THIS_MODULE,
-	.open = virtblk_open,
-	.release = virtblk_release,
-	.getgeo = virtblk_getgeo,
+	.owner  	= THIS_MODULE,
+	.getgeo		= virtblk_getgeo,
+	.free_disk	= virtblk_free_disk,
 };
 
 static int index_to_minor(int index)
@@ -791,8 +755,6 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		goto out_free_index;
 	}
 
-	/* This reference is dropped in virtblk_remove(). */
-	refcount_set(&vblk->refs, 1);
 	mutex_init(&vblk->vdev_mutex);
 
 	vblk->vdev = vdev;
@@ -985,8 +947,6 @@ static void virtblk_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	kfree(vblk->vqs);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&vblk->vdev_mutex);
-
-	virtblk_put(vblk);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
-- 
2.30.2

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