Re: [PATCH 01/24] block: remove the call to __invalidate_device in check_disk_size_change

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/20 9:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> __invalidate_device without the kill_dirty parameter just invalidates
> various clean entries in caches, which doesn't really help us with
> anything, but can cause all kinds of horrible lock orders due to how
> it calls into the file system.  The only reason this hasn't been a
> major issue is because so many people use partitions, for which no
> invalidation was performed anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
>   fs/block_dev.c | 6 ------
>   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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