block: discard bdi_unregister() in favour of bdi_destroy()

bdi_unregister() now contains very little functionality.

It contains a "WARN_ON" if bdi->dev is NULL. This warning is of no real consequence as bdi->dev isn't needed by anything else in the function, and it triggers if
blk_cleanup_queue() -> bdi_destroy()
is called before bdi_unregister, which happens since
Commit: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")

So this isn't wanted.

It also calls bdi_set_min_ratio(). This needs to be called after writes through the bdi have all been flushed, and before the bdi is destroyed. Calling it early is better than calling it late as it frees up a global resource.

Calling it immediately after bdi_wb_shutdown() in bdi_destroy() perfectly fits these requirements.

So bdi_unregister() can be discarded with the important content moved to bdi_destroy(), as can the
writeback_bdi_unregister
event which is already not used.

Reported-by Mike Snitzer <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected] (v4.0)

Fixes c4db59d31e39 ("fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info")

Fixes 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")

Acked-by Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>

Acked-by Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Tested-by Nicholas Moulin <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by NeilBrown <[email protected]>

---

hi Jens,
It seems you might have missed this, possibly buried in a long thread.
It would be good you it could get to Linux and thence to -stable promptly.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

block/genhd.c +0 -1

index e351fc521053..1d4435478e8a 100644
@@ -657,7 +657,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;
 
 	sysfs_remove_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "bdi");
-	bdi_unregister(&disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
 	blk_unregister_queue(disk);
 	blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);
 

include/linux/backing-dev.h +0 -1

index aff923ae8c4b..d87d8eced064 100644
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ __printf(3, 4)
 int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
 		const char *fmt, ...);
 int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
-void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
 int __must_check bdi_setup_and_register(struct backing_dev_info *, char *);
 void bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages,
 			enum wb_reason reason);

include/trace/events/writeback.h +0 -1

index 880dd7437172..c178d13d6f4c 100644
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(writeback_class, name, \
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_nowork);
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_wake_background);
 DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_register);
-DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_unregister);
 
 DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(wbc_class,
 	TP_PROTO(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct backing_dev_info *bdi),

mm/backing-dev.c +1 -17

index 6dc4580df2af..000e7b3b9896 100644
@@ -359,23 +359,6 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 	flush_delayed_work(&bdi->wb.dwork);
 }
 
-/*
- * Called when the device behind @bdi has been removed or ejected.
- *
- * We can't really do much here except for reducing the dirty ratio at
- * the moment.  In the future we should be able to set a flag so that
- * the filesystem can handle errors at mark_inode_dirty time instead
- * of only at writeback time.
- */
-void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
-{
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!bdi->dev))
-		return;
-
-	bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister);
-
 static void bdi_wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 {
 	memset(wb, 0, sizeof(*wb));

@@ -443,6 +426,7 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 	int i;
 
 	bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi);
+	bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
 
 	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&bdi->work_list));
 	WARN_ON(delayed_work_pending(&bdi->wb.dwork));