Merge tag 'v5.7-rc7' into devel

Linux 5.7-rc7

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 52b6f646cdbd..93672c3f1c78 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/blkpg.h>
 #include <linux/magic.h>
-#include <linux/dax.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/pagevec.h>
@@ -1893,6 +1892,16 @@ static void __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
 	struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
 	struct block_device *victim = NULL;
 
+	/*
+	 * Sync early if it looks like we're the last one.  If someone else
+	 * opens the block device between now and the decrement of bd_openers
+	 * then we did a sync that we didn't need to, but that's not the end
+	 * of the world and we want to avoid long (could be several minute)
+	 * syncs while holding the mutex.
+	 */
+	if (bdev->bd_openers == 1)
+		sync_blockdev(bdev);
+
 	mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, for_part);
 	if (for_part)
 		bdev->bd_part_count--;