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. Diffstat: Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 3 -- block/genhd.c | 9 ++---- drivers/block/nbd.c | 8 ++--- drivers/block/rbd.c | 2 - drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt.c | 10 +------ drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 2 - drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 2 - drivers/md/md-cluster.c | 6 ++-- drivers/md/md-linear.c | 2 - drivers/md/md.c | 10 +++---- drivers/md/md.h | 2 - drivers/nvdimm/blk.c | 3 -- drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 3 -- drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 9 ++---- drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 2 - drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 3 -- drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 16 +++++++---- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 6 ++-- fs/block_dev.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++------------------ include/linux/blk_types.h | 4 ++ include/linux/genhd.h | 6 ++-- 22 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
