On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:55:53 +0900 shunki-fujita <shunki-fujita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When changing the size of a block device, its all caches are freed.
> It's necessary on shrinking to prevent spurious I/Os to the disappeared region.
> However, on expanding, such kind of I/Os doesn't happen.
>
> Similar things can be considered for btrfs filesystem resize and resize2fs,
> but they are designed not to cache drops when expanding.
> Therefore this patch removes unnecessary cache drop.
Yes, the patch removes the flush_disk() call when shrinking. But it
adds additional code which is unchangelogged and uncommented. What's
happening here?
> --- a/fs/block_dev.c
> +++ b/fs/block_dev.c
> @@ -1337,7 +1337,14 @@ void check_disk_size_change(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
> "%s: detected capacity change from %lld to %lld\n",
> disk->disk_name, bdev_size, disk_size);
> i_size_write(bdev->bd_inode, disk_size);
> - flush_disk(bdev, false);
> + if (bdev_size > disk_size) {
> + flush_disk(bdev, false);
> + } else {
> + if (!bdev->bd_disk)
> + return;
> + if (disk_part_scan_enabled(bdev->bd_disk))
> + bdev->bd_invalidated = 1;
> + }
> }
> }
Oh, I see. It's a copy-n-paste of some mystery uncommented,
lost-in-the-mists-of-time code from flush_disk(). Argh.
The world would be a better place if we could move that bit of code
into a separate function, figure out what it does, document it and call
it from both sites.
