[PATCH] (9/15) big struct block_device * push (first series)
- this one is interesting and will play in the next series as well; affected place is fs/block_dev.c::do_open(). We check if bdev is a partition (same way it is done in generic_make_request()) and if it is - open entire disk and put pointer to its bdev into a new field bdev->bd_contains. Otherwise (non-partition) we set bdev->bd_contains to bdev. Corresponding cleanup done in blkdev_put() (and failure path in do_open()) - when the last opener goes away we close bdev->bd_contains if bdev is a partition (i.e. not equal to its ->bd_contains) and set it to NULL. Immediate effect is that we can get from bdev of partition to bdev of disk when submitting a bio, but it also opens a way to handle partition-parsing in a sane way. That will be done in the next series.
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