Re: [PATCH v11 02/16] xfs: only call xfs_setsize_buftarg once per buffer target

[John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>]

On 05/05/2025 06:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * Flush and invalidate all devices' pagecaches before reading any metadata
>> + * because XFS doesn't use the bdev pagecache.
>> + */
>> +STATIC int
>> +xfs_preflush_devices(
>> +	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
>> +{
>> +	int			error;
>> +
>> +	error = xfs_buftarg_sync(mp->m_ddev_targp);
>> +	if (error)
>> +		return error;
>> +
>> +	if (mp->m_logdev_targp && mp->m_logdev_targp != mp->m_ddev_targp) {
>> +		error = xfs_buftarg_sync(mp->m_ddev_targp);
>> +		if (error)
>> +			return error;
>> +	}
> Why does this duplicate all the logic instead of being folded into
> xfs_open_devices?

So you mean an additive change like:

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index 64fbd089ef55..9fa538938e07 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -488,6 +488,9 @@ xfs_open_devices(
  	mp->m_ddev_targp = xfs_alloc_buftarg(mp, sb->s_bdev_file);
  	if (!mp->m_ddev_targp)
  		goto out_close_rtdev;
+	error = sync_blockdev(mp->m_ddev_targp->bt_bdev);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_close_rtdev;

  	if (rtdev_file) {
@@ -495,6 +498,9 @@ xfs_open_devices(
  		mp->m_rtdev_targp = xfs_alloc_buftarg(mp, rtdev_file);
  		if (!mp->m_rtdev_targp)
  			goto out_free_ddev_targ;
+		error = sync_blockdev(mp->m_rtdev_targp->bt_bdev);
+		if (error)
+			goto out_free_ddev_targ;
  	}

  	if (logdev_file && file_bdev(logdev_file) != ddev) {
@@ -503,6 +509,9 @@ xfs_open_devices(
  		mp->m_logdev_targp = xfs_alloc_buftarg(mp, logdev_file);
  		if (!mp->m_logdev_targp)
  			goto out_free_rtdev_targ;
+		error = sync_blockdev(mp->m_logdev_targp->bt_bdev);
+		if (error)
+			goto out_free_rtdev_targ;
  	} else {
  		mp->m_logdev_targp = mp->m_ddev_targp;
  		/* Handle won't be used, drop it */


Right?