linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] check bh->b_blocknr only if BH

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:46:40 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check bh->b_blocknr only if BH_Mapped is set

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:48:11 +0530
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de> wrote:

> check bh->b_blocknr only if BH_Mapped is set

Why?

> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index 665d446..782c365 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -344,13 +344,13 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_device *bdev, 
> sector_t block)
>  	head = page_buffers(page);
>  	bh = head;
>  	do {
> -		if (bh->b_blocknr == block) {
> +		if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
> +			all_mapped = 0;
> +		else if (bh->b_blocknr == block) {
>  			ret = bh;
>  			get_bh(bh);
>  			goto out_unlock;
>  		}
> -		if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
> -			all_mapped = 0;
>  		bh = bh->b_this_page;
>  	} while (bh != head);

Does this fix some user-visible misbehaviour?  If so, what was that
behaviour?

Please write good changelogs.  This is not some pointless book-keeping
exercise.  People will make decisions about which kernel versions
patches should be merged into, and they will want to know if a
particular patch addresses a particular problem which they are
experiencing.  For this, they need information.

Thanks.
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