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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs: guard_bio_eod() needs to consider partitions
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 09:46:15AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 03:16:36AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>>> Fixes: 74d46992e0d9 ("block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index")
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <gedwards@ddn.com>
>>
>> That smells like a nasty source of overhead, especially on SMP boxen...
>
> We could just use __disk_get_part similar to the partition remapping,
> or just pass the block_device to guard_bio_eod.

Do you have a preference? __disk_get_part would be isolated to
guard_bio_eod. If we pass in the block_device, it would also touch all
the mpage_bio_submit callers.

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