Re: remove revalidate_disk()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Sep 02 2020 - 10:49:40 EST


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.

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Jens Axboe