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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index b2ebfd96785b..a71d442ef7d0 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1515,6 +1515,16 @@ static void __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part) struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk; struct block_device *victim = NULL; + /* + * Sync early if it looks like we're the last one. If someone else + * opens the block device between now and the decrement of bd_openers + * then we did a sync that we didn't need to, but that's not the end + * of the world and we want to avoid long (could be several minute) + * syncs while holding the mutex. + */ + if (bdev->bd_openers == 1) + sync_blockdev(bdev); + mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, for_part); if (for_part) bdev->bd_part_count--; |