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http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=20a8143eaa3300a58326156eaf43e03db0fd2cb6
Commit: 20a8143eaa3300a58326156eaf43e03db0fd2cb6
Parent: 53a7a1bb438245cd2ef9674b9af3a5201d7d7657
Author: Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Fri Feb 8 04:21:51 2008 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Fri Feb 8 09:22:41 2008 -0800
NBD: remove limit on max number of nbd devices
Remove the arbitrary 128 device limit for NBD. nbds_max can now be set to
any number. In certain scenarios where devices are used sparsely we have
run into the 128 device limit.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 10 ++++------
include/linux/nbd.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index ae31060..018753c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static unsigned int debugflags;
#endif /* NDEBUG */
static unsigned int nbds_max = 16;
-static struct nbd_device nbd_dev[MAX_NBD];
+static struct nbd_device *nbd_dev;
/*
* Use just one lock (or at most 1 per NIC). Two arguments for this:
@@ -649,11 +649,9 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct nbd_request) != 28);
- if (nbds_max > MAX_NBD) {
- printk(KERN_CRIT "nbd: cannot allocate more than %u nbds; %u
requested.\n", MAX_NBD,
- nbds_max);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ nbd_dev = kcalloc(nbds_max, sizeof(*nbd_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!nbd_dev)
+ return -ENOMEM;
for (i = 0; i < nbds_max; i++) {
struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1);
diff --git a/include/linux/nbd.h b/include/linux/nbd.h
index cc2b472..9865720 100644
--- a/include/linux/nbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/nbd.h
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ enum {
};
#define nbd_cmd(req) ((req)->cmd[0])
-#define MAX_NBD 128
/* userspace doesn't need the nbd_device structure */
#ifdef __KERNEL__
-
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