On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 06:15:09PM +0530, Saugata Das wrote: > --- a/fs/buffer.c > +++ b/fs/buffer.c > @@ -2926,6 +2926,9 @@ int submit_bh(int rw, struct buffer_head * bh) > if (test_set_buffer_req(bh) && (rw & WRITE)) > clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh); > > + if (buffer_meta(bh)) > + rw |= REQ_META; > + submit_bh has a perfectly valid rw argument where you can pass REQ_META. Please use that instead of abusing a buffer state bit for an I/O submission flag. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html