block, partition: add partition_meta_info to hd_struct

I'm reposting this patch series as v4 since there have been no additional
comments, and I cleaned up one extra bit of unneeded code (in 3/3). The patches
are against Linus's tree: 2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c
(2.6.36-rc3).

Would this patchset be suitable for inclusion in an mm branch?

This changes adds a partition_meta_info struct which itself contains a
union of structures that provide partition table specific metadata.

This change leaves the union empty. The subsequent patch includes an
implementation for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION-based metadata.

Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 59a2db6fecef..c8da12055264 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1004,6 +1004,7 @@ static void disk_release(struct device *dev)
         kfree(disk->random);
         disk_replace_part_tbl(disk, NULL);
         free_part_stats(&disk->part0);
+        free_part_info(&disk->part0);
         kfree(disk);
 }
 struct class block_class = {