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As an artifact of how gendisk lookup used to work in earlier kernels, GENHD_FL_UP is only cleared very late in del_gendisk, and a global lock is used to prevent opens from succeeding while del_gendisk is tearing down the gendisk. Switch to clearing the flag early and under bd_mutex so that callers can use bd_mutex to stabilize the flag, which removes the need for the global mutex. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210514131842.1600568-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.