Re: [PATCH v3 0/29] block: Make blkdev_get_by_*() return handle

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:48:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

Hello,

this is a v3 of the patch series which implements the idea of blkdev_get_by_*()
calls returning bdev_handle which is then passed to blkdev_put() [1]. This
makes the get and put calls for bdevs more obviously matching and allows us to
propagate context from get to put without having to modify all the users
(again!). In particular I need to propagate used open flags to blkdev_put() to
be able count writeable opens and add support for blocking writes to mounted
block devices. I'll send that series separately.

The series is based on Christian's vfs tree as of today as there is quite
some overlap. Patches have passed some reasonable testing - I've tested block
changes, md, dm, bcache, xfs, btrfs, ext4, swap. More testing or review is
always welcome. Thanks! I've pushed out the full branch to:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git bdev_handle

to ease review / testing. Since there were not many comments for v2 and
Christoph has acked the series I think we should start discussing how to merge
the series. Most collisions with this series seem to happen in the filesystems
area so VFS tree would seem as the least painful way to merge this. Jens,

I really do like this series especially struct bdev_handle and moving
the mode bits in there. I'll happily take this. So far there have only
been minor things that can easily be fixed.