The patch titled Make XFS use BH_Unwritten and BH_Delay correctly has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is make-xfs-use-bh_unwritten-and-bh_delay-correctly.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Make XFS use BH_Unwritten and BH_Delay correctly From: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> Don't hide buffer_unwritten behind buffer_delay() and remove the hack that clears unexpected buffer_unwritten() states now that it can't happen. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c~make-xfs-use-bh_unwritten-and-bh_delay-correctly fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c~make-xfs-use-bh_unwritten-and-bh_delay-correctly +++ a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c @@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ xfs_count_page_state( do { if (buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_mapped(bh)) (*unmapped) = 1; - else if (buffer_unwritten(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh)) - clear_buffer_unwritten(bh); else if (buffer_unwritten(bh)) (*unwritten) = 1; else if (buffer_delay(bh)) @@ -1272,7 +1270,6 @@ __xfs_get_blocks( if (direct) bh_result->b_private = inode; set_buffer_unwritten(bh_result); - set_buffer_delay(bh_result); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dgc@xxxxxxx are revert-bd_mount_mutex-back-to-a-semaphore.patch xfs-remove-useless-wmb-memory-barrier.patch make-bh_unwritten-a-first-class-bufferhead-flag-v2.patch make-xfs-use-bh_unwritten-and-bh_delay-correctly.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html