So far we did not return BH_New buffers from ext4_dax_get_block() because that would trigger racy zeroing in DAX code. This zeroing is gone these days so we can remove the workaround. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 87150122d361..7ccd6fd7819d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3298,11 +3298,6 @@ int ext4_dax_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, if (ret < 0) return ret; } - /* - * At least for now we have to clear BH_New so that DAX code - * doesn't attempt to zero blocks again in a racy way. - */ - clear_buffer_new(bh_result); return 0; } #else -- 2.6.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
