linux-kernel - Re: disk revalidation updates and OOM

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Message-ID: <20200316113746.GA15930@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:37:46 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     He Zhe <zhe.he@...driver.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, jack@...e.cz,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        bvanassche@....org, keith.busch@...el.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mwilck@...e.com, yuyufen@...wei.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: disk revalidation updates and OOM

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 07:01:09PM +0800, He Zhe wrote:
> > Do 142fe8f and 979c690d work with the build fix applied? (f0b870d
> > shouldn't be interesting for this case).
> 
> Sorry for slow reply.
> 
> With my build fix applied, the issue is triggered since 142fe8f.
> And I can see the endless loop of invalidate and revalidate...

Thanks.  Can you test the patch below that restores the previous
rather odd behavior of not clearing the capacity to 0 if partition
scanning is not enabled?


diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 69bf2fb6f7cd..daac27f4b821 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1520,10 +1520,13 @@ int bdev_disk_changed(struct block_device *bdev, bool invalidate)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (invalidate)
-		set_capacity(disk, 0);
-	else if (disk->fops->revalidate_disk)
-		disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
+	if (invalidate) {
+		if (disk_part_scan_enabled(disk))
+			set_capacity(disk, 0);
+	} else {
+		if (disk->fops->revalidate_disk)
+			disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
+	}
 
 	check_disk_size_change(disk, bdev, !invalidate);