On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:37:07 +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> This series comes from Christoph Hellwig's suggestion [1]. Some block
> device drivers such as loop driver and nbd driver need to invalidate
> the gendisk when the backend is detached so that the gendisk can be
> reused by the new backend. Now the invalidation is done in device
> driver with their own ways. To avoid code duplication and hide
> some internals of the implementation, this series adds a block layer
> helper and makes both loop driver and nbd driver use it.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/4] block: Add invalidate_disk() helper to invalidate the gendisk
commit: f059a1d2e23a165bf86e33673c6a7535a08c6341
[2/4] loop: Use invalidate_disk() helper to invalidate gendisk
commit: e515be8f3b3e63be4c5e91dc6620483ed0990a0c
[3/4] loop: Remove the unnecessary bdev checks and unused bdev variable
commit: 19f553db2ac03cb8407ec8efb8e140951afdfb87
[4/4] nbd: Use invalidate_disk() helper on disconnect
commit: 435c2acb307f19acc791b4295e29cc53a82bd24d
Best regards,
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Jens Axboe
