Re: [PATCH 0/4] block: Fixes for bdi handling

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On 03/08/2017 09:48 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> patches in this series fix the most urgent bugs that were introduced by commit
> 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()" and by
> 0dba1314d4f8 "scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes".
> In fact before these commits we had a different set of problems in the
> code but they were less visible :).
> 
> I'm still waiting for test confirmation from Omar and Arthur Marsh who reported
> issues but I'm not able to hit any problem anymore in my testing.  I think it
> would be nice to get the patches to rc2 so to speed up things I'm posting the
> patches now so that review can happen in parallel with the testing.
> 
> Other BDI handling fixes I have in my queue can wait a bit more since they are
> either theoretical or long-standing issues. So I'll repost them once these four
> are sorted out.

Agree, we'll need to get this sorted for -rc2, thanks a lot for looking
into it. I'll queue these up for testing as well, and hopefully ship
them off tomorrow (or Friday, at the latest).

-- 
Jens Axboe




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