[dm-devel] [PATCH 4/9] block: add a new revalidate_disk_size helper

[Song Liu]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 9:00 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
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>  drivers/md/md-cluster.c       |  6 ++---
>  drivers/md/md-linear.c        |  2 +-
>  drivers/md/md.c               | 10 ++++-----

For md bits:
Acked-by: Song Liu <song at kernel.org>

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> +/**
> + * revalidate_disk_size - checks for disk size change and adjusts bdev size.
> + * @disk: struct gendisk to check
> + * @verbose: if %true log a message about a size change if there is any
> + *
> + * This routine checks to see if the bdev size does not match the disk size
> + * and adjusts it if it differs. When shrinking the bdev size, its all caches
> + * are freed.
> + */
> +void revalidate_disk_size(struct gendisk *disk, bool verbose)
> +{
> +       struct block_device *bdev;
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Hidden disks don't have associated bdev so there's no point in
> +        * revalidating them.
> +        */
> +       if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)
> +               return;
> +
> +       bdev = bdget_disk(disk, 0);
> +       if (bdev) {
> +               check_disk_size_change(disk, bdev, verbose);
> +               bdput(bdev);
> +       }
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(revalidate_disk_size);

Shall we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() here?

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