linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4: cleanup bh release code in ext4_ind_remove

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Date:   Sat, 23 Mar 2019 11:58:50 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        miaoxie@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4: cleanup bh release code in
 ext4_ind_remove_space()

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 03:10:13PM +0800, zhangyi (F) wrote:
> Currently, we are releasing the indirect buffer where we are done with
> it in ext4_ind_remove_space(), so we can see the brelse() and
> BUFFER_TRACE() everywhere. It seems fragile and hard to read, and we
> may probably forget to release the buffer some day. This patch do some
> cleanup stuff, put all the releasing code together to the end of this
> function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@...wei.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted