Re: [PATCH 03/10] dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument

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On Wed 23-03-16 11:12:26, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 02:22:48PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Fault handlers currently take complete_unwritten argument to convert
> > unwritten extents after PTEs are updated. However no filesystem uses
> > this anymore as the code is racy. Remove the unused argument.
> 
> This looks good.  Looking at this reminded me that at some point it may be
> good to clean up our buffer head flags checks and make sure we don't have
> checks that don't make sense - we still check for buffer_unwritten() in
> buffer_written(), for instance. 
> 
> The handling of BH_New isn't consistent among filesystems, either - XFS & ext4
> go out of their way to make sure BH_New is not set, while ext2 sets BH_New.
> 
> But I think those are separate from this patch, I think.

Yes, that's a separate thing and I think I've handled most of that in the
following patches. Thanks for review!

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