forked from luck/tmp_suning_uos_patched
c83f6bf98d
Add a new operation code (BLKPG_RESIZE_PARTITION) to the BLKPG ioctl that allows altering the size of an existing partition, even if it is currently in use. This patch converts hd_struct->nr_sects into sequence counter because One might extend a partition while IO is happening to it and update of nr_sects can be non-atomic on 32bit machines with 64bit sector_t. This can lead to issues like reading inconsistent size of a partition. Sequence counter have been used so that readers don't have to take bdev mutex lock as we call sector_in_part() very frequently. Now all the access to hd_struct->nr_sects should happen using sequence counter read/update helper functions part_nr_sects_read/part_nr_sects_write. There is one exception though, set_capacity()/get_capacity(). I think theoritically race should exist there too but this patch does not modify set_capacity()/get_capacity() due to sheer number of call sites and I am afraid that change might break something. I have left that as a TODO item. We can handle it later if need be. This patch does not introduce any new races as such w.r.t set_capacity()/get_capacity(). v2: Add CONFIG_LBDAF test to UP preempt case as suggested by Phillip. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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| .. | ||
| partitions | ||
| blk-cgroup.c | ||
| blk-cgroup.h | ||
| blk-core.c | ||
| blk-exec.c | ||
| blk-flush.c | ||
| blk-integrity.c | ||
| blk-ioc.c | ||
| blk-iopoll.c | ||
| blk-lib.c | ||
| blk-map.c | ||
| blk-merge.c | ||
| blk-settings.c | ||
| blk-softirq.c | ||
| blk-sysfs.c | ||
| blk-tag.c | ||
| blk-throttle.c | ||
| blk-timeout.c | ||
| blk.h | ||
| bsg-lib.c | ||
| bsg.c | ||
| cfq-iosched.c | ||
| compat_ioctl.c | ||
| deadline-iosched.c | ||
| elevator.c | ||
| genhd.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.iosched | ||
| Makefile | ||
| noop-iosched.c | ||
| partition-generic.c | ||
| scsi_ioctl.c | ||