Re: [PATCH 004 of 4] Make address_space_operations->invalidatepage return void

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:32 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>  > I'll try to stress test jfs with these patches to see if I can trigger
>  > the an oops here.
> 
>  While stress testing on a jfs volume (dbench), I hit an assert in jbd:
> 
>  Assertion failure in journal_invalidatepage() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1920: "!page_has_buffers(page)"

Yes, thanks, that assertion has become wrong.

--- devel/fs/jbd/transaction.c~make-address_space_operations-invalidatepage-return-void-jbd-fix	2006-03-13 13:33:12.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/fs/jbd/transaction.c	2006-03-13 13:33:12.000000000 -0800
@@ -1915,9 +1915,8 @@ void journal_invalidatepage(journal_t *j
 	} while (bh != head);
 
 	if (!offset) {
-		/* Maybe should BUG_ON !may_free - neilb */
-		try_to_free_buffers(page);
-		J_ASSERT(!page_has_buffers(page));
+		if (may_free && try_to_free_buffers(page))
+			J_ASSERT(!page_has_buffers(page));
 	}
 }
 

However I'm more inclined to drop the whole patch, really - having
->invalidatepage() return a success indication makes sense.  The fact that
we're currently not using that return value doesn't mean that we shouldn't,
didn't and won't.