From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] xfs: document the invalidate_bdev call in invalidate_bdev
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:53:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230810155350.GE28000@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230809223923.GX11352@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 03:39:23PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > + * read from the same page in the pagecache.
> > + *
> > + * The unmount writes updated inode metadata to disk directly. The XFS
> > + * buffer cache does not use the bdev pagecache, nor does it invalidate
> > + * the pagecache on umount. If the above scenario occurs, the pagecache
>
> This sentence reads a little strangely, since "nor does it invalidate"
> would seem to conflict with the invalidate_bdev call below. I suggest
> changing the verb a bit:
>
> "The XFS buffer cache does not use the bdev pagecache, so it needs to
> invalidate that pagecache on unmount."
Agreed. I'll forward it to the original author of the sentence time
permitting :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-10 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-09 22:05 s_fs_info and ->kill_sb revisited v2 Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 01/13] xfs: reformat the xfs_fs_free prototype Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-10 8:53 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-10 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-11 7:24 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 02/13] xfs: remove a superfluous s_fs_info NULL check in xfs_fs_put_super Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 03/13] xfs: free the xfs_mount in ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 04/13] xfs: remove xfs_blkdev_put Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 05/13] xfs: close the RT and log block devices in xfs_free_buftarg Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 06/13] xfs: close the external block devices in xfs_mount_free Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:34 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 07/13] xfs: document the invalidate_bdev call in invalidate_bdev Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-10 8:20 ` Christian Brauner
2023-08-10 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-08-10 15:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-10 15:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-10 16:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-10 15:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 08/13] ext4: close the external journal device in ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 09/13] exfat: don't RCU-free the sbi Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-10 13:01 ` Namjae Jeon
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 10/13] exfat: free the sbi and iocharset in ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-10 13:02 ` Namjae Jeon
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 11/13] ntfs3: rename put_ntfs ntfs3_free_sbi Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 12/13] ntfs3: don't call sync_blockdev in ntfs_put_super Christoph Hellwig
2023-08-09 22:05 ` [PATCH 13/13] ntfs3: free the sbi in ->kill_sb Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-07 13:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-09-07 13:54 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-07 15:23 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-09-07 15:49 ` Christian Brauner
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