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Commit bcce3de1 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: implement extended dev numbers



Implement extended device numbers.  A block driver can tell block
layer that it wants to use extended device numbers.  After the usual
minor space is used up, block layer automatically allocates devt's
from EXT_BLOCK_MAJOR.

Currently only one major number is allocated for this but as the
allocation is strictly on-demand, ~1mil minor space under it should
suffice unless the system actually has more than ~1mil partitions and
if that ever happens adding more majors to the extended devt area is
easy.

Due to internal implementation issues, the first partition can't be
allocated on the extended area.  In other words, genhd->minors should
at least be 1.  This limitation will be lifted by later changes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
parent c9959059
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