Not every segment in a multi-segment buffer is dirty in a transaction and they will not be outputted. The assert in xfs_buf_item_format_segment() that checks for the at least one chunk of data in the segment to be used is not necessary true for multi-segmented buffers. Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c =================================================================== --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c @@ -287,6 +287,17 @@ xfs_buf_item_format_segment( */ base_size = offsetof(struct xfs_buf_log_format, blf_data_map) + (blfp->blf_map_size * sizeof(blfp->blf_data_map[0])); + + nvecs = 0; + first_bit = xfs_next_bit(blfp->blf_data_map, blfp->blf_map_size, 0); + if (!(bip->bli_flags & XFS_BLI_STALE) && first_bit == -1) { + /* + * If the map is not be dirty in the transaction, mark + * the size as zero and do not advance the vector pointer. + */ + goto out; + } + vecp->i_addr = blfp; vecp->i_len = base_size; vecp->i_type = XLOG_REG_TYPE_BFORMAT; @@ -301,15 +312,13 @@ xfs_buf_item_format_segment( */ trace_xfs_buf_item_format_stale(bip); ASSERT(blfp->blf_flags & XFS_BLF_CANCEL); - blfp->blf_size = nvecs; - return vecp; + goto out; } /* * Fill in an iovec for each set of contiguous chunks. */ - first_bit = xfs_next_bit(blfp->blf_data_map, blfp->blf_map_size, 0); - ASSERT(first_bit != -1); + last_bit = first_bit; nbits = 1; for (;;) { @@ -371,7 +380,8 @@ xfs_buf_item_format_segment( nbits++; } } - bip->__bli_format.blf_size = nvecs; +out: + blfp->blf_size = nvecs; return vecp; } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs