[PATCH 60/78] zram: remove the claim mechanism

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Fri Nov 20 02:37:15 EST 2020


On 11/16/20 3:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The zram claim mechanism was added to ensure no new opens come in
> during teardown.  But the proper way to archive that is to call
> del_gendisk first, which takes care of all that.  Once del_gendisk
> is called in the right place, the reset side can also be simplified
> as no I/O can be outstanding on a block device that is not open.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>   drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 76 ++++++++++-------------------------
>   1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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