[dm-devel] remove revalidate_disk()

[Josef Bacik]

On 9/1/20 11:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a
> really odd duck in the last years.  The prime reason why most people
> use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to
> the block_device structure.  But it also calls into the rather ill
> defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the
> callers.  So this adds a new helper to just propagate the size, and
> cleans up all kinds of mess around this area.  Follow on patches
> will eventuall kill of ->revalidate_disk entirely, but ther are a lot
> more patches needed for that.
> 

I applied and built everything on Jens's for-next, patch #2 was fuzzy but it 
applied.

I checked through everything, the only thing that was strange to me is not 
calling revalidate_disk_size() in nvdimm, but since it's during attach you point 
out it doesn't matter.  You can add

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef at toxicpanda.com>

To the series, thanks,

Josef