Re: [PATCH 01/14] block: remove disk_free_zone_resources()

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 8/5/26 4:27 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> In the rare event when revalidating the zones of a zoned block device
> fails, the device capacity will be dropped to 0. In such case, the zoned
> block device will either be rescanned and restored or dropped entirely and
> its gendisk destroyed. So calling disk_free_zone_resources() from
> blk_revalidate_disk_zones() in case of error does not make much sense. We
> can keep the zone resources in case the device is rescanned and restored
> or simply free all resources in disk_release_zone_resources() when the
> gendick is destroyed.
> 
> Remove the call to disk_free_zone_resources() from
> blk_revalidate_disk_zones() and squash disk_free_zone_resources() inside
> disk_release_zone_resources(). With this change, the conditional creation
> of the zone write plugs work queue is not necessary anymore as the
> workqueue will keep existing together with all other resources until the
> disk is released. This simplifies disk_alloc_zone_resources().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
> ---
>   block/blk-zoned.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>   1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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