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Hi Jens, this series removes the revalidate_disk() function, which has been a really odd duck in the last years. The prime reason why most people use it is because it propagates a size change from the gendisk to the block_device structure. But it also calls into the rather ill defined ->revalidate_disk method which is rather useless for the callers. So this adds a new helper to just

...;ffffffff8010c2f0>] efi_partition+0x99/0x5d4 [<ffffffff880a8917>] :sd_mod:sd_revalidate_disk+0xb74/0xc86 [<ffffffff8010c257>] efi_partition+0x0/0x5d4 [<ffffffff8010ad6c>] rescan_partitions+0x132/0x279 [<ffffffff800e56b0>] do_open+0x231/0x30f [<ffffffff800e589c>] __blkdev_get+0x6a/0x7c [<ffffffff8002d0e8>] wake_up_bit+0x11/0x22 [<ffffffff8010abdd>] register_disk+0x133/0x190 [<ffffffff801479df>] add_disk+0x34/0x3d [<ffffffff880a9492>] :sd_mod:sd_probe+0x2f7/0x355 [<ffffffff80056e02>] netlink_broadcast+0x2a9/0x2f1 [<ffffffff801c7d26>...

...a88cf>] ? get_disk+0x39/0x50 [ 288.525571] [<c03a88f0>] ? exact_lock+0xa/0x11 [ 288.525579] [<c03b09e8>] ? kobject_get+0x12/0x17 [ 288.525587] [<c041c01a>] ? get_device+0x13/0x18 [ 288.525595] [<c0433f8a>] sr_block_open+0x6d/0x82 [ 288.525603] [<c02b27a0>] __blkdev_get+0x7f/0x289 [ 288.525612] [<c02b29b4>] blkdev_get+0xa/0xc [ 288.525619] [<c02b2a15>] blkdev_open+0x5f/0x8b [ 288.525629] [<c0292e84>] __dentry_open+0x111/0x1f4 [ 288.525638] [<c0293005>] nameidata_to_filp+0x2d/0x42 [ 288.525646] [<c02b29b6>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/...