Christoph Hellwig 74d46992e0 block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index ... This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code). For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists once per block device. But given that the block layer also does partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is used for said remapping in generic_make_request. Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all over the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>		2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
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host	block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index	2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
target	block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index	2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
Kconfig	nvmet: add a generic NVMe target	2016-07-05 11:30:33 -06:00
Makefile	nvmet: add a generic NVMe target	2016-07-05 11:30:33 -06:00