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authorMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>2015-07-16 11:16:45 +0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-07-17 08:41:53 -0600
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block: partition: convert percpu ref
Percpu refcount is the perfect match for partition's case, and the conversion is quite straight. With the convertion, one pair of atomic inc/dec can be saved for accounting block I/O, which is run in hot path of block I/O. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 85df45292dba..0c706f33a599 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1284,7 +1284,11 @@ struct gendisk *alloc_disk_node(int minors, int node_id)
* converted to make use of bd_mutex and sequence counters.
*/
seqcount_init(&disk->part0.nr_sects_seq);
- hd_ref_init(&disk->part0);
+ if (hd_ref_init(&disk->part0)) {
+ hd_free_part(&disk->part0);
+ kfree(disk);
+ return NULL;
+ }
disk->minors = minors;
rand_initialize_disk(disk);