> bdi_unregister() now contains very little functionality.
>
> It contains a "WARN_ON" if bdi->dev is NULL. This warning is of no
> real consequence as bdi->dev isn't needed by anything else in the function,
> and it triggers if blk_cleanup_queue() -> bdi_destroy()
> is called before bdi_unregister, which happens since
> Commit: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered
> .")
>
> So this isn't wanted.
>
> It also calls bdi_set_min_ratio(). This needs to be called after
> writes through the bdi have all been flushed, and before the bdi is destroy=
> ed. Calling it early is better than calling it late as it frees up a global
> resource.
>
> Calling it immediately after bdi_wb_shutdown() in bdi_destroy()
> perfectly fits these requirements.
>
> So bdi_unregister() can be discarded with the important content moved to
> bdi_destroy(), as can the writeback_bdi_unregister event which is already
> not used.
Hello,
Gentlemen, can we please apply this patch to linux-block (linux-next)?
we recently added on-demand device creation/removal (linux-next) to zram
and already see complains (bdi_unregister() warning on line 372) from
people.
-ss
> Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] (v4.0)
> Fixes: c4db59d31e39 ("fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_de
> v_info")
> Fixes: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Nicholas Moulin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
>
> ---
>
> hi Jens,
> this is a revised version of the comment - no code change - make it suitable
> to
> add to your linux-block tree.
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
>
> diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
> index e351fc521053..1d4435478e8a 100644
> --- a/block/genhd.c
> +++ b/block/genhd.c
> @@ -657,7 +657,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
> disk->flags &=3D ~GENHD_FL_UP;
> =20
> sysfs_remove_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "bdi");
> - bdi_unregister(&disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
> blk_unregister_queue(disk);
> blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);
> =20
> diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> index aff923ae8c4b..d87d8eced064 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
> @@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ __printf(3, 4)
> int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
> const char *fmt, ...);
> int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
> -void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
> int __must_check bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *);
> void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages,
> enum wb_reason reason);
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeb=
> ack.h
> index 880dd7437172..c178d13d6f4c 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h
> @@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_class, name, \
> DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_nowork);
> DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_background);
> DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_register);
> -DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_unregister);
> =20
> DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(wbc_class,
> TP_PROTO(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct backing_dev_info *bdi),
> diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
> index 6dc4580df2af..000e7b3b9896 100644
> --- a/mm/backing-dev.c
> +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
> @@ -359,23 +359,6 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *b=
> di)
> flush_delayed_work(&bdi->wb.dwork);
> }
> =20
> -/*
> - * Called when the device behind @bdi has been removed or ejected.
> - *
> - * We can't really do much here except for reducing the dirty ratio at
> - * the moment. In the future we should be able to set a flag so that
> - * the filesystem can handle errors at mark_inode_dirty time instead
> - * of only at writeback time.
> - */
> -void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
> -{
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!bdi->dev))
> - return;
> -
> - bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister);
> -
> static void bdi_wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info =
> *bdi)
> {
> memset(wb, 0, sizeof(*wb));
> @@ -443,6 +426,7 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
> int i;
> =20
> bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi);
> + bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
> =20
> WARN_ON(!list_empty(&bdi->work_list));
> WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&bdi->wb.dwork));
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