linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/6] ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks

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Message-ID: <20161129174811.GA30208@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:48:11 -0700
From:   Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] ext2: Return BH_New buffers for zeroed blocks

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:46:31AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> So far we did not return BH_New buffers from ext2_get_blocks() when we
> allocated and zeroed-out a block for DAX inode to avoid racy zeroing in
> DAX code. This zeroing is gone these days so we can remove the
> workaround.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
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