[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 2/6] block: add queue_to_disk() to get gendisk from request_queue
Mike Snitzer
snitzer at redhat.com
Wed Jan 27 17:20:56 UTC 2021
On Mon, Jan 25 2021 at 7:13am -0500,
Jeffle Xu <jefflexu at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> Sometimes we need to get the corresponding gendisk from request_queue.
>
> It is preferred that block drivers store private data in
> gendisk->private_data rather than request_queue->queuedata, e.g. see:
> commit c4a59c4e5db3 ("dm: stop using ->queuedata").
>
> So if only request_queue is given, we need to get its corresponding
> gendisk to get the private data stored in that gendisk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu at linux.alibaba.com>
> Review-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
^typo
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
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