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block: restore multiple bd_link_disk_holder() support

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Commit e09b457b (block: simplify holder symlink handling) incorrectly
assumed that there is only one link at maximum.  dm may use multiple
links and expects block layer to track reference count for each link,
which is different from and unrelated to the exclusive device holder
identified by @holder when the device is opened.

Remove the single holder assumption and automatic removal of the link
and revive the per-link reference count tracking.  The code
essentially behaves the same as before commit e09b457b sans the
unnecessary kobject reference count dancing.

While at it, note that this facility should not be used by anyone else
than the current ones.  Sysfs symlinks shouldn't be abused like this
and the whole thing doesn't belong in the block layer at all.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Tejun Heo
2011-01-14 18:43:57 +01:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent c553f8e335
commit 49731baa41
4 changed files with 86 additions and 21 deletions
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include/linux/fs.h
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@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ struct block_device {
int bd_holders;
bool bd_write_holder;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
struct gendisk * bd_holder_disk; /* for sysfs slave linkng */
struct list_head bd_holder_disks;
#endif
struct block_device * bd_contains;
unsigned bd_block_size;
@@ -2058,12 +2058,18 @@ extern struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_dev(dev_t dev, fmode_t mode,
extern int blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode);
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
extern int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk);
extern void bd_unlink_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev,
struct gendisk *disk);
#else
static inline int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev,
struct gendisk *disk)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void bd_unlink_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev,
struct gendisk *disk)
{
}
#endif
#endif