On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:16:32AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:31:20AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > xlog_sync already sets a lot of these flags again, and is called on an > > > iclog buffer which never has the READ or XBF_WRITE_FAIL set, so just > > > replacing it with an opencoded > > > > > > bp->b_flags &= (XBF_FUA | XBF_FLUSH); > > > > We can't do that because there are internal flags like _XBF_PAGES > > that are set on log buffers. Clearing such flags will cause problems > > when the iclog buffer is finally released on unmount. Hence I'd > > prefer to keep the code as it stands. > > Sorry - meabt to write: > > bp->b_flags &= ~(XBF_FUA | XBF_FLUSH); > > which is all we'll need. All other flags cleared by XFS_BUF_ZEROFLAGS > are either never set for log buffers (XBF_READ, XBF_WRITE_FAIL), or > always set for log buffers (XBF_WRITE, XBF_ASYNC, XBF_SYNCIO). Ah, that makes more sense. I should have realised that, but there are places where we do clear buffer flags like your original suggestion so it didn't occur to me it was just a typo. I'll fix it up. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs