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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: question about ext4/inode.c
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:48:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEF1B59.2070702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0911021708550.2115@ask.diku.dk>

Julia Lawall wrote:
> The function ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks contains the following code:
> 
>         if (!(inode->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL) &&
>             (max_blocks > EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA))
>                 max_blocks = EXT4_MAX_TRANS_DATA;
> 
> 
> Elsewhere the constant EXT4_EXTENTS_FL is used as follows:
> 
> EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EXTENTS_FL
> 
> Should that be done in ext4_da_writepages_trans_blocks as well?
> 
> thanks,
> julia

Ouch, yes, looks like a bug.  I don't think that value would ever be set 
on the vfs inode's i_flags so we're always going down that path.

It's probably not catastrophic; if I'm reading it right we are just 
being more conservative all the time.

Want to send a patch? :)

-Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-02 16:10 question about ext4/inode.c Julia Lawall
2009-11-02 17:48 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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