[PATCH 19/20] bcache: remove a superflous lookup_bdev all

[Coly Li]

On 11/18/20 4:47 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Don't bother to call lookup_bdev for just a slightly different error
> message without any functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>ist

Hi Christoph,

NACK. This removing error message is frequently triggered and observed,
and distinct a busy device and an already registered device is important
(the first one is critical error and second one is not).

Remove such error message will be a functional regression.

Coly Li

> ---
>  drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 44 +--------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> index e5db2cdd114112..5c531ed7785280 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> @@ -2380,40 +2380,6 @@ kobj_attribute_write(register,		register_bcache);
>  kobj_attribute_write(register_quiet,	register_bcache);
>  kobj_attribute_write(pendings_cleanup,	bch_pending_bdevs_cleanup);
>  
> -static bool bch_is_open_backing(struct block_device *bdev)
> -{
> -	struct cache_set *c, *tc;
> -	struct cached_dev *dc, *t;
> -
> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(c, tc, &bch_cache_sets, list)
> -		list_for_each_entry_safe(dc, t, &c->cached_devs, list)
> -			if (dc->bdev == bdev)
> -				return true;
> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(dc, t, &uncached_devices, list)
> -		if (dc->bdev == bdev)
> -			return true;
> -	return false;
> -}
> -
> -static bool bch_is_open_cache(struct block_device *bdev)
> -{
> -	struct cache_set *c, *tc;
> -
> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(c, tc, &bch_cache_sets, list) {
> -		struct cache *ca = c->cache;
> -
> -		if (ca->bdev == bdev)
> -			return true;
> -	}
> -
> -	return false;
> -}
> -
> -static bool bch_is_open(struct block_device *bdev)
> -{
> -	return bch_is_open_cache(bdev) || bch_is_open_backing(bdev);
> -}
> -
>  struct async_reg_args {
>  	struct delayed_work reg_work;
>  	char *path;
> @@ -2535,15 +2501,7 @@ static ssize_t register_bcache(struct kobject *k, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
>  				  sb);
>  	if (IS_ERR(bdev)) {
>  		if (bdev == ERR_PTR(-EBUSY)) {
> -			bdev = lookup_bdev(strim(path));
> -			mutex_lock(&bch_register_lock);
> -			if (!IS_ERR(bdev) && bch_is_open(bdev))
> -				err = "device already registered";
> -			else
> -				err = "device busy";
> -			mutex_unlock(&bch_register_lock);
> -			if (!IS_ERR(bdev))
> -				bdput(bdev);
> +			err = "device busy";
>  			if (attr == &ksysfs_register_quiet)
>  				goto done;
>  		}
>