From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4]ext4: Remove unneeded BUG_ON() in ext4_move_extents()
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 23:13:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090906031338.GC3055@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9DE3E5.8080104@rs.jp.nec.com>
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:17:57PM +0900, Akira Fujita wrote:
> ext4: Remove unneeded BUG_ON() in ext4_move_extents()
>
> From: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
>
> ext4_move_extents() checks with BUG_ON() whether
> the exchanged blocks count accords with request blocks count.
> But, if the target range (orig_start + len) includes sparse block(s),
> 'moved_len' (exchanged blocks count) does not accord with
> 'len' (request blocks count),
> since sparse block is not counted in 'moved_len'.
> Therefore we hit BUG_ON(), though it succeeded.
Added to the ext4 patch queue.
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-06 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 3:17 [PATCH 2/4]ext4: Remove unneeded BUG_ON() in ext4_move_extents() Akira Fujita
2009-09-02 5:38 ` Peng Tao
2009-09-02 6:48 ` Akira Fujita
2009-09-06 3:13 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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