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Alexander Viro authored
Horrors with open/reread_partition exclusion are starting to get fixed. It's not the final variant, but at least we are getting the logics into one place; switch to final variant will happen once we get per-disk analog of gendisks. New fields - ->bd_part_sem and ->bd_part_count. The latter counts the amount of opened partitions. The former protects said count _and_ is held while we are rereading partition tables. Helpers - dev_part_lock()/dev_part_unlock() (currently taking kdev_t; that will change pretty soon). No more ->open() and ->release() for partitions, all that logics went to generic code. Lock hierachy is currently messy: ->bd_sem for partitions -> ->bd_part_sem -> ->bd_sem for entire disks Ugly, but that'll go away and to get the final variant of locking right now would take _really_ big patch - with a lot of steps glued together. The damn thing is large as it is...
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