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authorPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>2008-02-08 04:21:51 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:22:41 -0800
commit20a8143eaa3300a58326156eaf43e03db0fd2cb6 (patch)
treeee12300f417f0ecbaa4879b62a19a09423de76b3 /drivers/block
parent53a7a1bb438245cd2ef9674b9af3a5201d7d7657 (diff)
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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 <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/nbd.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 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);
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