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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: make tr_growdata a permanent transaction
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 23:24:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190423062447.GE28518@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190417143759.GG114154@magnolia>

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 07:37:59AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> /me wonders if we ought to have a comment here about why we're asserting
> on this? i.e.
> /*
>  * This function can shrink the AGFL, which uses a deferred op to avoid
>  * exceeding transaction reservation (or whatever the original reason
>  * was).  Deferred ops require a transaction with a permanent
>  * reservation, so check that here.
>  */
> ASSERT(...);

Yes, I think we should.  Also I think adding this assert should be
a separate commit from the original fix to even more clearly document
the intention.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-23  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-17  9:36 [PATCH] xfs: make tr_growdata a permanent transaction Brian Foster
2019-04-17  9:54 ` Brian Foster
2019-04-17 14:34   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-17 14:37 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-17 15:33   ` Brian Foster
2019-04-17 15:47     ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-23  6:24   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-04-23 15:04     ` Darrick J. Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-23 15:07 Darrick J. Wong
2019-04-23 15:28 ` Brian Foster
2019-04-23 15:49   ` Darrick J. Wong

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