Re: [PATCH] jbd2: clear BH_Delay & BH_Unwritten in journal_unmap_buffer

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On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:07:20PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> journal_unmap_buffer()'s zap_buffer: code clears a lot of buffer head
> state ala discard_buffer(), but does not touch _Delay or _Unwritten
> as discard_buffer() does.
> 
> This can be problematic in some areas of the ext4 code which assume
> that if they have found a buffer marked unwritten or delay, then it's
> a live one.  Perhaps those spots should check whether it is mapped
> as well, but if jbd2 is going to tear down a buffer, let's really
> tear it down completely.
> 
> Without this I get some fsx failures on sub-page-block filesystems
> up until v3.2, at which point 4e96b2dbbf1d7e81f22047a50f862555a6cb87cb
> and 189e868fa8fdca702eb9db9d8afc46b5cb9144c9 make the failures go
> away, because buried within that large change is some more flag
> clearing.  I still think it's worth doing in jbd2, since
> ->invalidatepage leads here directly, and it's the right place
> to clear away these flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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