Re: [PATCH v4 14/27] fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting

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On Wed 10-05-17 08:19:50, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 13:48 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Tue 09-05-17 11:49:17, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
> > > index 954d510b765a..d6138b6411ff 100644
> > > --- a/fs/file_table.c
> > > +++ b/fs/file_table.c
> > > @@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ struct file *alloc_file(const struct path *path, fmode_t mode,
> > >  	file->f_path = *path;
> > >  	file->f_inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
> > >  	file->f_mapping = path->dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
> > > +	file->f_wb_err = filemap_sample_wb_error(file->f_mapping);
> > 
> > Why do you sample here when you also sample in do_dentry_open()? I didn't
> > find any alloc_file() callers that would possibly care about writeback
> > errors... 
> > 
> > 								Honza
> 
> I basically used the setting of f_mapping as a guideline as to where to
> sample it for initialization. My thinking was that if f_mapping ever
> ended up different then you'd probably also want f_wb_err to be
> resampled anyway.

OK, makes sense.

> I can drop this hunk if you think we don't need it.

I don't really care. I was just wondering whether I'm missing something...

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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