fs: don't flush pagecache when expanding block device
authorshunki-fujita <shunki-fujita@cybozu.co.jp>
Thu, 5 Apr 2018 23:20:07 +0000 (16:20 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Apr 2018 04:36:23 +0000 (21:36 -0700)
When changing the size of a block device, its all caches are freed.
It's necessary on shrinking to prevent spurious I/Os to the disappeared
region.  However, on expanding, such kind of I/Os doesn't happen.

Similar things can be considered for btrfs filesystem resize and
resize2fs, but they are designed not to drop caches when expanding.
Therefore this patch removes unnecessary cache drop.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521457240-153390-1-git-send-email-shunki-fujita@cybozu.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Shunki Fujita <shunki-fujita@cybozu.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/block_dev.c

index fe09ef9..7a506c5 100644 (file)
@@ -1324,7 +1324,8 @@ static void flush_disk(struct block_device *bdev, bool kill_dirty)
  * @bdev: struct bdev to adjust.
  *
  * This routine checks to see if the bdev size does not match the disk size
- * and adjusts it if it differs.
+ * and adjusts it if it differs. When shrinking the bdev size, its all caches
+ * are freed.
  */
 void check_disk_size_change(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
 {
@@ -1337,7 +1338,8 @@ void check_disk_size_change(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
                       "%s: detected capacity change from %lld to %lld\n",
                       disk->disk_name, bdev_size, disk_size);
                i_size_write(bdev->bd_inode, disk_size);
-               flush_disk(bdev, false);
+               if (bdev_size > disk_size)
+                       flush_disk(bdev, false);
        }
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_disk_size_change);