Re: Force IDE cache flush on shutdown

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu May 06 2004 - 05:54:19 EST


On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:46:38PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Ok the following does the trick for me. Better?
>
> diff -purN linux-2.6.5/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c linux/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c
> --- linux-2.6.5/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2004-05-06 10:56:55.672139712 +0200
> +++ linux/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c 2004-05-06 11:09:19.470065240 +0200
> @@ -1820,6 +1820,23 @@ static int idedisk_revalidate_disk(struc
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static int ide_drive_shutdown(struct device * dev)
> +{
> + ide_drive_t * drive = container_of(dev,ide_drive_t,gendev);
> +
> + /* safety checks */
> + if (!drive->present)
> + return 0;
> + if (drive->media != ide_disk)
> + return 0;
> + printk("Flushing cache: %s \n", drive->name);
> + ide_cacheflush_p(drive);
> + /* give the hardware time to finish; it may return prematurely to cheat */
> + mdelay(300);
> + return 0;
> +}

Looks good to mz limited understanding of the ide code :)

> static struct block_device_operations idedisk_ops = {
> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> .open = idedisk_open,
> @@ -1881,6 +1898,7 @@ static void __exit idedisk_exit (void)
>
> static int idedisk_init (void)
> {
> + idedisk_driver.gen_driver.shutdown = ide_drive_shutdown;

isn't idedisk_driver initialized statically somewhere? You should probably
add

.gen_driver = {
.shutdown = ide_drive_shutdown,
},

to that initializer instead.

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