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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:48:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50627B01.6070306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120926034240.GE11468@thunk.org>

On 9/25/12 10:42 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:41:40PM -0300, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
>>
>> Some ext4_bread callers do not needed any changes either because they already
>> had its own hole detector paths or because these are deprecaded (like
>> dx_show_entries)
> 
> BTW, dx_show entries isn't really deprecated; is debugging code which
> is usually not compiled in, but it does get used from time to time by
> developers who are debugging the directory hash tree code...
> 
> So having it show the holes by printing a note that there _was_ a
> whole is probably a good thing from a debugging point of view...

I think what Carlos meant is that there are no callers in the tree...
so even with debug options, it's not used.  It takes a custom patch...
Does it still work? :)

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-26  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 18:41 [PATCH] ext4: ext4_bread usage audit Carlos Maiolino
2012-09-25  6:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-09-26  3:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26  3:48   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-09-26 14:14     ` Carlos Maiolino
2012-09-27 13:29       ` Andreas Dilger
2012-09-27 13:20 ` Theodore Ts'o

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