[PATCH 21/32] bdev: Drop pointless invalidate_mapping_buffers() call

Jan Kara <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Mar 2026 11:34:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm,gmane.linux.block
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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_mapping_buffers() call.

CC: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
---
 block/bdev.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index ed022f8c48c7..ad1660b6b324 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -420,7 +420,6 @@ static void init_once(void *data)
 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);
 }
 
-- 
2.51.0


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