linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: remove repeated eb->pages check in, disk-io.c/csum_dirty

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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:39:10 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...ionio.com>
To:	Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@...il.com>
CC:	Chris Mason <clmason@...ionio.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: remove repeated eb->pages check in,
 disk-io.c/csum_dirty_buffer

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 07:26:15AM -0600, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> In csum_dirty_buffer, we first get eb from page->private.
> Then we check if the page is the first page of eb. Later
> we check it again. Remove the repeated check here.

You had the right idea here, two checks and one has a warning, so you
kept the warning.  But when the metadata block size is bigger than a
page, the WARN_ON triggers for any page that isn't the first one in the
extent buffer.

I kept this commit but removed the WARN_ON(1)

-chris
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