From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA25534 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:05:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DD5375D.96736A69@digeo.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:05:17 -0800 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch/2.4] ll_rw_blk stomping on bh state [Re: kernel BUG at journal.c:1732! (2.4.19)] References: <20021028111357.78197071.nutts@penguinmail.com> <20021112150711.F2837@redhat.com> <3DD140F1.F4AED387@digeo.com> <20021112185345.H2837@redhat.com> <20021115173858.S4512@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Mark Hazell , adilger@clusterfs.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:53:45PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:57:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "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? > > > > That's the only reason I can think of. Simply scrubbing all the state > > bits is totally the wrong way of going about that, of course. > > So what's the vote on this? It's a decision between clearing only the > obvious bit (BH_Dirty) on the one hand, and keeping the code as > unchanged as possible to reduce the possibility of introducing new > bugs. > > But frankly I can't see any convincing argument for clearing anything > except the dirty state in this case. > I'd agree with that. And the dirty bit will already be cleared, won't it? Maybe just treat it as an IO error and leave it at that; surely that won't introduce any problems, given all the testing that has gone into the error handling paths :) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/