[PATCH] NVMe: Reread partitions on metadata formats
Keith Busch
keith.busch at intel.com
Tue Jul 14 10:57:48 PDT 2015
This patch has the driver automatically reread partitions if a namespace
has a separate metadata format. Previously revalidating a disk was
sufficient to get the correct capacity set on such formatted drives,
but partitions that may exist would not have been surfaced.
Reported-by: Paul Grabinar <paul.grabinar at ranbarg.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
---
drivers/block/nvme-core.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
index d1d6141..7920c27 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
@@ -2108,8 +2108,17 @@ static void nvme_alloc_ns(struct nvme_dev *dev, unsigned nsid)
goto out_free_disk;
add_disk(ns->disk);
- if (ns->ms)
- revalidate_disk(ns->disk);
+ if (ns->ms) {
+ struct block_device *bd = bdget_disk(ns->disk, 0);
+ if (!bd)
+ return;
+ if (blkdev_get(bd, FMODE_READ, NULL)) {
+ bdput(bd);
+ return;
+ }
+ blkdev_reread_part(bd);
+ blkdev_put(bd, FMODE_READ);
+ }
return;
out_free_disk:
kfree(disk);
--
1.7.10.4
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