exclusive accesses. * blkdev_put() is similarly extended. It now takes @mode argument and if @FMODE_EXCL is set, it releases an exclusive access. Also, when the last exclusive claim is released, the holder/slave symlinks are removed automatically. * bd_claim/release() and close_bdev_exclusive() are no longer necessary and either made static or removed. * bd_link_disk_holder() remains the same but bd_unlink_disk_holder() is no longer necessary and removed. * open_bdev_exclusive() becomes a simple wrapper around lookup_bdev() and blkdev_get(). It also has an unexpected extra bdev_read_only() test which probably should be moved into blkdev_get(). * open_by_devnum() is modified to take @holder argument and pass it to blkdev_get(). Most of bdev open/close operations are unified into blkdev_get/put() and most exclusive accesses are tested atomically at the open time (as it should). This cleans up code and removes some, both valid and invalid, but unnecessary all the same, corner cases. open_bdev_exclusive() and open_by_devnum() can use further cleanup - rename to blkdev_get_by_path() and blkdev_get_by_devt() and drop special features. Well, let's leave them for another day. Most conversions are straight-forward. drbd conversion is a bit more involved as there was some reordering, but the logic should stay the same. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Neil Brown Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Acked-by: Philipp Reisner Cc: Peter Osterlund Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Alex Elder Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com Cc: Leo Chen Cc: Scott Branden Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Joern Engel Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro “ óš•8x