On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
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> This still leaves the issue of reaching a gendisk object from request
> queue. Looking into it.

It looks like we have that pairing way back in blk_register_queue()
which takes a gendisk.  Is there any reason we don't hold onto the
gendisk there?  Eyeballing add_disk() and unlink_gendisk() seems to
confirm that gendisk lifetime spans request_queue.

Nauman and I were also wondering why blkio_group and blkio_policy_node
store a dev_t, rather than a direct pointer to gendisk.  dev_t seems
more like a userspace<->kernel interface than an inside-the-kernel
interface.

Chad
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