On 01/07/2025 11:40, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
This extra call is no needed as xfs_alloc_buftarg already calls
sync_blockdev.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index ba5bd6031ece..7a05310da895 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -1744,8 +1744,7 @@ xfs_configure_buftarg(
*/
if (bdev_can_atomic_write(btp->bt_bdev))
xfs_configure_buftarg_atomic_writes(btp);
-
- return sync_blockdev(btp->bt_bdev);
+ return 0;
}
int
BTW, the comment would need to be removed as well:
/*
* Flush the block device pagecache so our bios see anything dirtied
* before mount.
*/
if (bdev_can_atomic_write(btp->bt_bdev))
xfs_configure_buftarg_atomic_writes(btp);
return sync_blockdev(btp->bt_bdev);
}
This all seems to have come from 6e7d71b3a0, which is a strange
resolution to me.