Re: [PATCH 0/4 v2] block: Fixes for bdi handling

Jens Axboe
2017-03-11T22:27:35Z

On 03/10/2017 03:22 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 09-03-17 09:41:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 03/09/2017 03:16 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> this is a second revision of the series fixing the most urgent bugs that were
>>> introduced by commit 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to
>>> del_gendisk()" and by 0dba1314d4f8 "scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name
>>> registration crashes". In fact before these commits we had a different set of
>>> problems in the code but they were less visible :).
>>
>> It was rather urgent to get those fixes in, so I already sent them off.
>> Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to add the atomic init fix as a
>> separate patch later on.
>
> OK, actually my followup fixes remove the counter completely so I guess we
> can just leave it as is.

Yes, if that's the case, then there's little point in an incremental
cleanup.

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Jens Axboe