[PATCH 05/41] bdev: Drop pointless invalidate_inode_buffers() call

Jan Kara
2026-03-20T13:42:23Z

Nobody is calling mark_buffer_dirty_inode() with internal bdev inode and
it doesn't make sense for internal bdev inode to have any metadata
buffer heads. Just drop the pointless invalidate_inode_buffers() call
and consequently the whole bdev_evict_inode() because generic code takes
care of the rest.

CC: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
block/bdev.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index ed022f8c48c7..bb0ffa3bb4df 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -417,19 +417,11 @@ static void init_once(void *data)
inode_init_once(&ei->vfs_inode);
}

-static void bdev_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
-{
- truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data);
- invalidate_inode_buffers(inode); /* is it needed here? */
- clear_inode(inode);
-}
-
static const struct super_operations bdev_sops = {
.statfs = simple_statfs,
.alloc_inode = bdev_alloc_inode,
.free_inode = bdev_free_inode,
.drop_inode = inode_just_drop,
- .evict_inode = bdev_evict_inode,
};

static int bd_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
--
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