linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] zram: remove init_lock in zram_make

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Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:02:36 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] zram: remove init_lock in zram_make_request

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:54:33AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (02/02/15 16:06), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > So, guys, how about doing it differently, in less lines of code,
> > hopefully. Don't move reset_store()'s work to zram_reset_device().
> > Instead, move
> > 
> > 	set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
> > 	revalidate_disk(zram->disk);
> > 
> > out from zram_reset_device() to reset_store(). this two function are
> > executed only when called from reset_store() anyway. this also will let
> > us drop `bool reset capacity' param from zram_reset_device().
> > 
> > 
> > so we will do in reset_store()
> > 
> > 	mutex_lock(bdev->bd_mutex);
> > 
> > 	fsync_bdev(bdev);
> > 	zram_reset_device(zram);
> > 	set_capacity(zram->disk, 0);
> > 
> > 	mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
> > 
> > 	revalidate_disk(zram->disk);
> > 	bdput(bdev);
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > and change zram_reset_device(zram, false) call to simply zram_reset_device(zram)
> > in __exit zram_exit(void).
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Minchan, Ganesh, I sent a patch last night, with the above solution.
> looks ok to you?

Just I sent a feedback.

> 
> Minchan, I think I'll send my small struct zram clean-up patch after
> your init_lock patch. what's your opinion?

Good for me.

Thanks.
-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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