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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[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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