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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-11-23 15:38:40 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-12-02 00:53:39 +0300
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block: remove i_bdev
Switch the block device lookup interfaces to directly work with a dev_t so that struct block_device references are only acquired by the blkdev_get variants (and the blk-cgroup special case). This means that we now don't need an extra reference in the inode and can generally simplify handling of struct block_device to keep the lookups contained in the core block layer code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> [bcache] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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