[dm-devel] [PATCH 3/9] block: store a block_device pointer in struct bio

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Wed Dec 2 22:54:45 UTC 2020


On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 05:54:18PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Replace the gendisk pointer in struct bio with a pointer to the newly
> improved struct block device.  From that the gendisk can be trivially
> accessed with an extra indirection, but it also allows to directly
> look up all information related to partition remapping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun




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