btrfs: access superblock via pagecache in scan_one_device
btrfs_scan_one_device is calling set_blocksize() which can race with a concurrent process making dirty page cache pages. It can end up dropping dirty page cache pages on the floor, which isn't very nice when someone is just running btrfs dev scan to find filesystems on the box. Now that udev is registering btrfs devices as it discovers them, we can actually end up racing with our own mkfs program too. When this happens, we drop some of the important blocks written by mkfs. This commit changes scan_one_device to read the super out of the page cache instead of trying to use bread. This way we don't have to care about the blocksize of the device. This also drops the invalidate_bdev() call. It wasn't very polite to invalidate during the scan either. mkfs is putting the super into the page cache, there's no reason to invalidate at this point. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
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