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DM is no longer prone to having its request_queue be improperly initialized. Summary of changes: - defer DM's blk_register_queue() from add_disk()-time until dm_setup_md_queue() by using add_disk_no_queue_reg() in alloc_dev(). - dm_setup_md_queue() is updated to fully initialize DM's request_queue (_after_ all table loads have occurred and the request_queue's type, features and limits are known). A very welcome side-effect of these changes is DM no longer needs to: 1) backfill the "mq" sysfs entry (because historically DM didn't initialize the request_queue to use blk-mq until _after_ blk_register_queue() was called via add_disk()). 2) call elv_register_queue() to get .request_fn request-based DM device's "iosched" exposed in syfs. In addition, blk-mq debugfs support is now made available because request-based DM's blk-mq request_queue is now properly initialized before dm_setup_md_queue() calls blk_register_queue(). These changes also stave off the need to introduce new DM-specific workarounds in block core, e.g. this proposal: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10067961/ In the end DM devices should be less unicorn in nature (relative to initialization and availability of block core infrastructure provided by the request_queue). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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