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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2017-02-02 15:56:49 +0100
committerRitesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org>2017-10-18 12:05:43 +0530
commit393737a28b63836b3f12613b1c031e6f32cc3476 (patch)
tree74a6132fb9db0006d846d926931afa7fb83ffb9c /fs/block_dev.c
parentfa53f7f14b3c5f02ab920fc7fa0a906a5493a9ab (diff)
block: Unhash block device inodes on gendisk destruction
Currently, block device inodes stay around after corresponding gendisk hash died until memory reclaim finds them and frees them. Since we will make block device inode pin the bdi, we want to free the block device inode as soon as the device goes away so that bdi does not stay around unnecessarily. Furthermore we need to avoid issues when new device with the same major,minor pair gets created since reusing the bdi structure would be rather difficult in this case. Unhashing block device inode on gendisk destruction nicely deals with these problems. Once last block device inode reference is dropped (which may be directly in del_gendisk()), the inode gets evicted. Furthermore if the major,minor pair gets reallocated, we are guaranteed to get new block device inode even if old block device inode is not yet evicted and thus we avoid issues with possible reuse of bdi. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Change-Id: I41087d3bc818c4e58e0b4e20876e136ec1cbb07b Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git Git-commit: f44f1ab5a2dcd4e16eab850fd08e40ff2d0c28d4 [riteshh@codeaurora.org: resolved merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 26bbaaefdff4..d180449f07ce 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -623,6 +623,21 @@ static int bdev_set(struct inode *inode, void *data)
static LIST_HEAD(all_bdevs);
+/*
+ * If there is a bdev inode for this device, unhash it so that it gets evicted
+ * as soon as last inode reference is dropped.
+ */
+void bdev_unhash_inode(dev_t dev)
+{
+ struct inode *inode;
+
+ inode = ilookup5(blockdev_superblock, hash(dev), bdev_test, &dev);
+ if (inode) {
+ remove_inode_hash(inode);
+ iput(inode);
+ }
+}
+
struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev)
{
struct block_device *bdev;