Re: [PATCH 3/8] block: move bd_mutex to struct gendisk
From: Roger Pau Monné <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-28 07:35:10
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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 <redacted> Thanks, Roger.