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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
dm-devel@redhat.com,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
nbd@other.debian.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove revalidate_disk()
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 08:02:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78d5ab8a-4387-7bfb-6e25-07fd6c1ddc10@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200901155748.2884-1-hch@lst.de>
On 9/1/20 9:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a
> really odd duck in the last years. The prime reason why most people
> use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to
> the block_device structure. But it also calls into the rather ill
> defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the
> callers. So this adds a new helper to just propagate the size, and
> cleans up all kinds of mess around this area. Follow on patches
> will eventuall kill of ->revalidate_disk entirely, but ther are a lot
> more patches needed for that.
Applied, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-02 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-01 15:57 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/9] Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst: remove an incorrect sentence Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 7:22 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 2/9] block: don't clear bd_invalidated in check_disk_size_change Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 3/9] block: rename bd_invalidated Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 7:23 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 4/9] block: add a new revalidate_disk_size helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 6:06 ` Song Liu
2020-09-02 7:23 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 5/9] block: use revalidate_disk_size in set_capacity_revalidate_and_notify Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 7:23 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 6/9] nvme: opencode revalidate_disk in nvme_validate_ns Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 7:23 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 7/9] sd: open code revalidate_disk Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 7:24 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 8/9] nvdimm: simplify revalidate_disk handling Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 9/9] block: remove revalidate_disk() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 5:59 ` Song Liu
2020-09-02 7:25 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-09-01 17:45 ` Josef Bacik
2020-09-02 14:02 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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