On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > Each of these places is an oopsable race with umount. We can't fix them
> > without touching a lot of drivers. However, we can make the future fix
> > easier if we put the above into a helper function. Patch below does that.
>
> I don't like the name "ream_inodes()".
>
> Also, a driver shouldn't know about "inodes" and "buffers". It should just
> do something like
>
> invalidate_device(dev);
>
> because the only thing the driver knows about is the _device_.
>
> Then, invalidate_device() might do
>
> sb = get_super(dev)
> if (sb)
> invalidate_inodes (sb);
> invalidate_buffers(dev);
>
> which makes some amount of sense. And which can later be extended to deal
> with the page cache etc without the drivers ever knowing or caring.
Fine with me. Actually in _all_ cases execept cdrom.c it's preceded by
either sync_dev() or fsync_dev(). What do you think about pulling that
into the same function? Actually, that's what I've done in namespace
patch (name being invalidate_dev(), BTW ;-) The only problem I see
here is the argument telling whether we want sync or fsync (or nothing).
OTOH, I seriously suspect that we ought replace all sync_dev() cases
with fsync_dev() anyway... Your opinion?
Al
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