Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 3 authors, 2021-01-29

Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] block: add queue_to_disk() to get gendisk from request_queue

From: Mike Snitzer <hidden>
Date: 2021-01-27 17:23:40
Also in: dm-devel, linux-block

On Mon, Jan 25 2021 at  7:13am -0500,
Jeffle Xu [off-list ref] wrote:
Sometimes we need to get the corresponding gendisk from request_queue.

It is preferred that block drivers store private data in
gendisk->private_data rather than request_queue->queuedata, e.g. see:
commit c4a59c4e5db3 ("dm: stop using ->queuedata").

So if only request_queue is given, we need to get its corresponding
gendisk to get the private data stored in that gendisk.

Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Review-by: Mike Snitzer [off-list ref]
^typo

Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <redacted>
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