[PATCH V2 05/13] block: only account passthrough IO from userspace

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Jan 26 08:37:28 PST 2022


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 05:59:08PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> nvme just sets part0 to rq->bio, which is fine since nvme doesn't
> support partial completion.
> 
> The simplest way could be to assign bio->bi_bdev with q->disk->part0 in both
> bio_copy_user_iov() and bio_map_user_iov(), which should cover most of cases.
> Given user io is always on device instead of partition even though the
> command is sent via partition bdev.

This would be easiest, but it would also assign them when called from
the SG driver.  And that means these I/Os could be in flight when
detaching a SCSI ULP.  At least without the freeze in del_gendisk
(or the local one in case of the sd driver).



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