Doing this would reliably fail with -EBUSY for me: # mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/scratch; umount /mnt/scratch; mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb2 ... unable to open /dev/sdb2: Device or resource busy because mkfs.btrfs tries to open the device O_EXCL, and somebody still has it. Using systemtap to track bdev gets & puts shows a kworker thread doing a blkdev put after mkfs attempts a get; this is left over from the unmount. Adding an rcu_barrier() to btrfs_close_devices() causes unmount to wait until all blkdev_put()s are done, and the device is truly free once unmount completes. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- p.s. I debated putting it into close_ctree(); I don't know if there' anything else to wait for. Thoughts? diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index 5cbb7f4..258316a 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c @@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ int btrfs_close_devices(struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_devices) __btrfs_close_devices(fs_devices); free_fs_devices(fs_devices); } + rcu_barrier(); return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
