Re: remove revalidate_disk()

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On 9/1/20 11:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Hi Jens,

this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a
really odd duck in the last years.  The prime reason why most people
use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to
the block_device structure.  But it also calls into the rather ill
defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the
callers.  So this adds a new helper to just propagate the size, and
cleans up all kinds of mess around this area.  Follow on patches
will eventuall kill of ->revalidate_disk entirely, but ther are a lot
more patches needed for that.


I applied and built everything on Jens's for-next, patch #2 was fuzzy but it applied.

I checked through everything, the only thing that was strange to me is not calling revalidate_disk_size() in nvdimm, but since it's during attach you point out it doesn't matter. You can add

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To the series, thanks,

Josef



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