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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: linux-next: OOPS at boot time
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:27:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100724122750.GA10675@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100723100408.GB3305@quack.suse.cz>

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:04:08PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

> > @@ -1428,8 +1429,10 @@ out:
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Undo the block allocation
> >  	 */
> > -	if (!performed_allocation)
> > -		dquot_free_block(inode, *count);
> > +	if (!performed_allocation) {
> > +		dquot_free_block_nodirty(inode, *count);
> > +		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
> > +	}
> >  	brelse(bitmap_bh);
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
>   Sorry, but the above two changes look stupid... Why call _nodirty variant
> and dirty the inode immediately after that? It happens in two other places
> in your patch as well...

Frankly, I don't believe that dquot_free_block() is _ever_ the right interface;
please, leave dirtying the inode to the filesystem and let it be explicit.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-24 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20  6:41 linux-next: OOPS at boot time Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-20 10:36 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-20 22:45   ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-21  0:44     ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-21  5:20       ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-21  7:29         ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-21  7:48           ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-21 12:11             ` Jan Kara
2010-07-21 17:49               ` Al Viro
2010-07-21 21:40               ` Al Viro
2010-07-23 10:04                 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-24 12:27                   ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-07-21 23:19           ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-21 12:19       ` Jan Kara

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