The patch titled Subject: block: remove redundant check to bd_openers() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is block-remove-redundant-check-to-bd_openers.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: block: remove redundant check to bd_openers() bd_openers is stable under bd_mutex, no need to check it twice. Signed-off-by: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guo Chao <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: M. Hindess <hindessm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/block_dev.c~block-remove-redundant-check-to-bd_openers fs/block_dev.c --- a/fs/block_dev.c~block-remove-redundant-check-to-bd_openers +++ a/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_dev } } - if (!ret && !bdev->bd_openers) { + if (!ret) { bd_set_size(bdev,(loff_t)get_capacity(disk)<<9); bdi = blk_get_backing_dev_info(bdev); if (bdi == NULL) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch block-use-i_size_write-in-bd_set_size.patch block-remove-redundant-check-to-bd_openers.patch loopdev-fix-a-deadlock.patch loopdev-update-block-device-size-in-loop_set_status.patch loopdev-move-common-code-into-loop_figure_size.patch loopdev-remove-an-user-triggerable-oops.patch loopdev-ignore-negative-offset-when-calculate-loop-device-size.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html