On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 08:19:11AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > * The buffer is returned read and locked. > > @@ -59,12 +73,32 @@ xfs_rtbuf_get( > > struct xfs_buf **bpp) /* output: buffer for the block */ > > { > > struct xfs_mount *mp = args->mount; > > + struct xfs_buf **cbpp; /* cached block buffer */ > > + xfs_fsblock_t *cbp; /* cached block number */ > > struct xfs_buf *bp; /* block buffer, result */ > > struct xfs_inode *ip; /* bitmap or summary inode */ > > struct xfs_bmbt_irec map; > > int nmap = 1; > > int error; /* error value */ > > > > + cbpp = issum ? &args->bbuf : &args->sbuf; > > + cbp = issum ? &args->bblock : &args->sblock; > > Now that we have the summary/bitmap buffers in the args structure, > it seems like we can also drop the bp argument from xfs_rtbuf_get and > just the pointer in the args structue in the callers. Yeah, I was wondering about that too -- either we take a second refcount on @bp and pass it out via **bpp, or callers can pluck it from @args directly and call _cache_relse before @args goes out of scope. I'll remove **bpp since it's redundant. --D