From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Moyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size. Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:36:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20110217165057.5c50e566@notabene.brown> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110217165057.5c50e566@notabene.brown> (NeilBrown's message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:50:57 +1100") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: NeilBrown Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Andrew Patterson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids NeilBrown writes: > -int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev) > +int __invalidate_device2(struct block_device *bdev, bool kill_dirty) > { > struct super_block *sb = get_super(bdev); > int res = 0; > @@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@ int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev) > * hold). > */ > shrink_dcache_sb(sb); > - res = invalidate_inodes(sb); > + res = invalidate_inodes(sb, kill_dirty); > drop_super(sb); > } > invalidate_bdev(bdev); Neil, I think you also need to change the EXPORT_SYMBOL from __invalidate_device to __invalidate_device2. The floppy module won't build without that change. Cheers, Jeff