Re: New boot time message: detected capacity change

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> Today's pull from Linus' tree (HEAD = 258-ga2b9c1f) gave me some new
> messages during boot:
> 
> sda: detected capacity change from 0 to 146815737856
> sdb: detected capacity change from 0 to 146815737856
> 
> They weren't there yesterday (HEAD = 211-gc1d10d1) ... nor do they
> show up in any of my saved boot time dmesg files for the last few
> months.
> 
> Harmless?  Or something to worry about in the last few commits
> before 2.6.39 goes final?

Yes, it is harmless.  The order was changed between
rescan_partitions() and bd_set_size() - rescan_partitions() checked
for size change too and it resulted in simpler condition checks.
However, rescan_partitions() triggers the above message when it
detects size change unlike the silient bd_set_size().

Does the following patch remove the messages for you?

Thanks.

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 257b00e..bf9c7a7 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1120,6 +1120,15 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
 					goto restart;
 				}
 			}
+
+			if (!ret && !bdev->bd_openers) {
+				bd_set_size(bdev,(loff_t)get_capacity(disk)<<9);
+				bdi = blk_get_backing_dev_info(bdev);
+				if (bdi == NULL)
+					bdi = &default_backing_dev_info;
+				bdev_inode_switch_bdi(bdev->bd_inode, bdi);
+			}
+
 			/*
 			 * If the device is invalidated, rescan partition
 			 * if open succeeded or failed with -ENOMEDIUM.
@@ -1130,14 +1139,6 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
 				rescan_partitions(disk, bdev);
 			if (ret)
 				goto out_clear;
-
-			if (!bdev->bd_openers) {
-				bd_set_size(bdev,(loff_t)get_capacity(disk)<<9);
-				bdi = blk_get_backing_dev_info(bdev);
-				if (bdi == NULL)
-					bdi = &default_backing_dev_info;
-				bdev_inode_switch_bdi(bdev->bd_inode, bdi);
-			}
 		} else {
 			struct block_device *whole;
 			whole = bdget_disk(disk, 0);