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block: discard bdi_unregister() in favour of bdi_destroy()
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bdi_unregister() now contains very little functionality.

It contains a "WARN_ON" if bdi->dev is NULL.  This warning is of no
real consequence as bdi->dev isn't needed by anything else in the function,
and it triggers if
   blk_cleanup_queue() -> bdi_destroy()
is called before bdi_unregister, which happens since
  Commit: 6cd18e7 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")

So this isn't wanted.

It also calls bdi_set_min_ratio().  This needs to be called after
writes through the bdi have all been flushed, and before the bdi is destroyed.
Calling it early is better than calling it late as it frees up a global
resource.

Calling it immediately after bdi_wb_shutdown() in bdi_destroy()
perfectly fits these requirements.

So bdi_unregister() can be discarded with the important content moved to
bdi_destroy(), as can the
  writeback_bdi_unregister
event which is already not used.

Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] (v4.0)
Fixes: c4db59d ("fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info")
Fixes: 6cd18e7 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Nicholas Moulin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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neilbrown authored and axboe committed May 28, 2015
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion block/genhd.c
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Expand Up @@ -653,7 +653,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;

sysfs_remove_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "bdi");
bdi_unregister(&disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
blk_unregister_queue(disk);
blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);

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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/backing-dev.h
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Expand Up @@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ __printf(3, 4)
int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
const char *fmt, ...);
int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
int __must_check bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *);
void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages,
enum wb_reason reason);
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion include/trace/events/writeback.h
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Expand Up @@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_class, name, \
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_nowork);
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_background);
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_register);
DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_unregister);

DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(wbc_class,
TP_PROTO(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct backing_dev_info *bdi),
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18 changes: 1 addition & 17 deletions mm/backing-dev.c
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Expand Up @@ -359,23 +359,6 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
flush_delayed_work(&bdi->wb.dwork);
}

/*
* Called when the device behind @bdi has been removed or ejected.
*
* We can't really do much here except for reducing the dirty ratio at
* the moment. In the future we should be able to set a flag so that
* the filesystem can handle errors at mark_inode_dirty time instead
* of only at writeback time.
*/
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!bdi->dev))
return;

bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister);

static void bdi_wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
memset(wb, 0, sizeof(*wb));
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int i;

bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi);
bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);

WARN_ON(!list_empty(&bdi->work_list));
WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&bdi->wb.dwork));
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