On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 12:40:12AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > int blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
> > {
> > if (!mutex_trylock(&bdev->bd_mutex))
> > return -EBUSY;
> > blkdev_reread_part_nolock(bdev);
> > mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
> > }
>
> Yes, it is more clean, but with extra acquiring lock cost for the
> failure cases, especially when we replace trylock with mutex_lock().
It's just a few fairly trivial checks, so 'm not really worried about
it, especially given that blkdev_reread_part isn't called from a fast
path.
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