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buffer: make invalidate_bdev() drain all percpu LRU add caches

invalidate_bdev() should release all page cache pages which are clean
and not being used; however, if some pages are still in the percpu LRU
add caches on other cpus, those pages are considered in used and don't
get released. Fix it by calling lru_add_drain_all() before trying to
invalidate pages.

This problem was discovered while testing block automatic native
capacity unlocking. Null pages which were read before automatic
unlocking didn't get released by invalidate_bdev() and ended up
interfering with partition scan after unlocking.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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Tejun Heo and committed by
Jens Axboe
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fs/buffer.c
··· 275 275 return; 276 276 277 277 invalidate_bh_lrus(); 278 + lru_add_drain_all(); /* make sure all lru add caches are flushed */ 278 279 invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, -1); 279 280 } 280 281 EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_bdev);