On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 08:01:26PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > I think Dave means something like this patch of mine: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/166473478893.1083155.2555785331844801316.stgit@magnolia/T/#u > > From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: djwong@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 11:19:48 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH 3/4] xfs: set the buffer type after holding the AG[IF] across trans_roll > > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Currently, the only way to lock an allocation group is to hold the AGI > and AGF buffers. If repair needs to roll the transaction while > repairing some AG metadata, it maintains that lock by holding the two > buffers across the transaction roll and joins them afterwards. > > However, repair is not the same as the other parts of XFS that employ > this bhold/bjoin sequence, because it's possible that the AGI or AGF > buffers are not actually dirty before the roll. In this case, the > buffer log item can detach from the buffer, which means that we have to > re-set the buffer type in the bli after joining the buffer to the new > transaction so that log recovery will know what to do if the fs fails. > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Notice how after the Subject: there is a blank line (which terminates > the headers) followed by a new From: line in the body? And the > name/email in that second From: line matches the SOB later on? Or maybe we could have a new option to git-am to always use the first SOB as the From when there's no other explicit From in the message, so that we never care about the From used to send the e-mail ? That would also implicitly perform a requirement that an SOB necessarily exists. Willy