On Sun 12-02-17 12:58:33, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:44:24PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Move bdev_unhash_inode() after invalidate_partition() as
> > invalidate_partition() looks up bdev and will unnecessarily recreate it
> > if bdev_unhash_inode() destroyed it. Also use part_devt() when calling
> > bdev_unhash_inode() instead of manually creating the device number.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
>
> > @@ -648,9 +648,8 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
> > disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk,
> > DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY | DISK_PITER_REVERSE);
> > while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter))) {
> > - bdev_unhash_inode(MKDEV(disk->major,
> > - disk->first_minor + part->partno));
> > invalidate_partition(disk, part->partno);
> > + bdev_unhash_inode(part_devt(part));
> > delete_partition(disk, part->partno);
>
> So, before this patch, invalidate_partition() would have operated on a
> newly created inode and thus wouldn't have actually invalidated the
> existing bdev / mapping, right?
Yes, that is another effect. I'll add a note about this to the changelog.
Thanks for noting this.
Honza
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Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
