Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

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Hi,

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 02:52 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Mark Fasheh wrote:
> 
> >> ->commit_write() would probably do fine. Currently, block_prepare_write()
> >> uses it to know which buffers were newly allocated (the file system 
> >> specific
> >> get_block_t sets the bit after allocation). I think we could safely move
> >> the clearing of that bit to block_commit_write(), thus still allowing 
> >> us to
> >> detect and zero those blocks in generic_file_buffered_write()
> > 
> > 
> > OK, great, I'll make a few patches and see how they look. What did you
> > think of those other uninitialised buffer problems in my first email?
> 
> Hmm, doesn't look like we can do this either because at least GFS2
> uses BH_New for its own special things.
> 
What makes you say that? As far as I know we are not doing anything we
shouldn't with this flag, and if we are, then I'm quite happy to
consider fixing it up so that we don't,

Steve.


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