block: add new helper for disabling elevator switch when deleting disk
Add new helper disable_elv_switch() and new flag QUEUE_FLAG_NO_ELV_SWITCH for disabling elevator switch before deleting disk: - originally flag QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED is added for preventing elevator switch during removing disk, but this flag has been used widely for other purposes, so add one new flag for disabling elevator switch only - for avoiding deadlock risk, we have to move elevator queue register/unregister out of elevator lock and queue freeze, which will be done in next patch. However, this way adds small race window between elevator switch and deleting ->queue_kobj, in which elevator queue register/unregister could be run concurrently. The added helper will be used for avoiding the race in the following patch. - drain in-progress elevator switch before deleting disk Suggested-by:Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by:
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505141805.2751237-21-ming.lei@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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