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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Hazell <nutts@penguinmail.com>,
	adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch/2.4] ll_rw_blk stomping on bh state [Re: kernel BUG at journal.c:1732! (2.4.19)]
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:57:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD140F1.F4AED387@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021112150711.F2837@redhat.com>

"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> 
>                 if (maxsector < count || maxsector - count < sector) {
>                         /* Yecch */
>                         bh->b_state &= (1 << BH_Lock) | (1 << BH_Mapped);
> 
> ...
> 
> Folks, just which buffer flags do we want to preserve in this case?
> 

Why do we want to clear any flags in there at all?  To prevent
a storm of error messages from a buffer which has a silly block
number?

If so, how about setting a new state bit which causes subsequent
IO attempts to silently drop the IO on the floor?
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-12 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20021028111357.78197071.nutts@penguinmail.com>
2002-11-12 15:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-11-12 17:57   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-12 18:53     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-11-15 17:38       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-11-15 18:05         ` Andrew Morton

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