On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 10:04:56AM +0900, Minwoo Im wrote:

It was a point that I really would like to ask by RFC whether we can
have backpointer to the gendisk from the request_queue.  And I'd like to
have it to simplify this routine and for future usages also.

I think it is the right thing to do, at least mid-term, although I
don't want to enforce the burden on you right now.

I will restrict this one by checking GENHD_FL_UP flag from the gendisk
for the next patch.

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Alternatively we could make this request_queue QUEUE* flag for now.

As this patch rejects I/O from the block layer partition code, can we
have this flag in gendisk rather than request_queue ?

For now we can as the request_queue is required.  I have some plans to
clean up this area, but just using a request_queue flag for now is
probably the simplest, even if it means more work for me later.