Integrating the following commit(s) to linux-yocto/5.15:
1/1 [
Author: Christoph Hellwig
Email: hch@lst.de
Subject: block, loop: support partitions without scanning
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 07:58:06 +0200
Historically we did distinguish between a flag that surpressed partition
scanning, and a combinations of the minors variable and another flag if
any partitions were supported. This was generally confusing and doesn't
make much sense, but some corner case uses of the loop driver actually
do want to support manually added partitions on a device that does not
actively scan for partitions. To make things worsee the loop driver
also wants to dynamically toggle the scanning for partitions on a live
gendisk, which makes the disk->flags updates non-atomic.
Introduce a new GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN bit in disk->state that disables
just scanning for partitions, and toggle that instead of GENHD_FL_NO_PART
in the loop driver.
[bva: Notes for this backport:
- drop return code in disk_scan_partitions for GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN.
The check doesn't strictly need ot be in this routine in 5.15, but
this faciliates future changes in this area, since there are
other checks in the same function.
- GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN could go to genh.c, but genhd.c includes
blkdev.h, so we leave the new GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN definition
in the same places as where it was introduced upstream to keep
the changes to a minimum
- upstream commit e16e506ccd673 merges blkdev_reread_part into
disk_scan_partitions. Backporting that change is more churn
than we need, so we also add the check for GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN
into that routine to have the check hit in a 5.15 context.
]
Upstream-Status: Backport [commit b9684a71fca79]
Fixes: 1ebe2e5f9d68 ("block: remove GENHD_FL_EXT_DEVT")
Reported-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220527055806.1972352-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
]
(From OE-Core rev: 768ac24afff43d58c32617025391049d5d0d166b)
Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
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