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| author |  Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
| 2022-05-27 07:58:06 +0200 |
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| committer |  Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
| 2022-05-27 06:39:00 -0600 |
| commit | b9684a71fca793213378dd410cd11675d973eaa1 (patch) | |
| tree | 7238edcd322c551951333c7be21921b543ffd9aa /include/linux/blkdev.h | |
| parent | bcache: avoid journal no-space deadlock by reserving 1 journal bucket (diff) | |
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block, loop: support partitions without scanning
Historically we did distinguish between a flag that surpressed partition
scanning, and a combinations of the minors variable and another flag if
any partitions were supported. This was generally confusing and doesn't
make much sense, but some corner case uses of the loop driver actually
do want to support manually added partitions on a device that does not
actively scan for partitions. To make things worsee the loop driver
also wants to dynamically toggle the scanning for partitions on a live
gendisk, which makes the disk->flags updates non-atomic.
Introduce a new GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN bit in disk->state that disables
just scanning for partitions, and toggle that instead of GENHD_FL_NO_PART
in the loop driver.
Fixes: 1ebe2e5f9d68 ("block: remove GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT")
Reported-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220527055806.1972352-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index afad3d1d0dac..691b4c15b8ce 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ struct gendisk { #define GD_DEAD 2 #define GD_NATIVE_CAPACITY 3 #define GD_ADDED 4 +#define GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN 5 struct mutex open_mutex; /* open/close mutex */ unsigned open_partitions; /* number of open partitions */ |