blkfront: fixes for 'xm block-detach ... --force'

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Prevent prematurely freeing 'struct blkfront_info' instances (when the
xenbus data structures are gone, but the Linux ones are still needed).

Prevent adding a disk with the same (major, minor) [and hence the same
name and sysfs entries, which leads to oopses] when the previous
instance wasn't fully de-allocated yet.

This still doesn't address all issues resulting from forced detach:
I/O submitted after the detach still blocks forever, likely preventing
subsequent un-mounting from completing. It's not clear to me (not
knowing much about the block layer) how this can be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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Jan Beulich 2010-08-07 18:28:55 +02:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c

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