Re: [GIT PULL] Block changes for 4.18-rc

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On 6/4/18 6:56 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 05:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:04 PM Kent Overstreet
>> <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> However, that's not correct as is because mddev_delayed_put() calls
>>> kobject_put(), and the kobject isn't initialized when the mddev is first
>>> allocated, it's initialized when the gendisk is allocated... that isn't hard to
>>> fix but that's getting into real refactoring that I'll need to put actual work
>>> into testing.
>>
>> Well, it also removes the bioset_exit() calls entirely.
> 
> Yeah, I realized that when I went back to finish that patch
>>
>> How about just the attached?
>>
>> It simply does it as two different cases, and adds the bioset_exit()
>> calls to mddev_delayed_delete().
> 
> Oh right, just taking advantage of the fact that just the queue_work() needs to
> be under the spinlock, not the actual free in the other case.
> 
> I like your patch for a less invasive version, but I did finish and test my
> version, which deletes more code :)
> 
> I've already gone to the trouble of coming up with a VM smoketest, so I can test
> yours too... I don't really have a strong opinion on which patch should go in.

Kent, care to submit a proper version? We should get this in.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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