Do the early unlocked syncing even earlier to move more code out of the recursive path. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index d732001285201a..691eef20a7ced7 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1547,16 +1547,6 @@ static void __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part) struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk; struct block_device *victim = NULL; - /* - * Sync early if it looks like we're the last one. If someone else - * opens the block device between now and the decrement of bd_openers - * then we did a sync that we didn't need to, but that's not the end - * of the world and we want to avoid long (could be several minute) - * syncs while holding the mutex. - */ - if (bdev->bd_openers == 1) - sync_blockdev(bdev); - mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, for_part); if (for_part) bdev->bd_part_count--; @@ -1583,6 +1573,16 @@ void blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode) { struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk; + /* + * Sync early if it looks like we're the last one. If someone else + * opens the block device between now and the decrement of bd_openers + * then we did a sync that we didn't need to, but that's not the end + * of the world and we want to avoid long (could be several minute) + * syncs while holding the mutex. + */ + if (bdev->bd_openers == 1) + sync_blockdev(bdev); + mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); if (mode & FMODE_EXCL) { -- 2.30.1