Re: [PATCH v2] Btrfs, lockdep: get_restripe_target: use lockdep inBUG_ON

From: Ilya Dryomov
Date: Thu Apr 05 2012 - 12:51:51 EST


On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 12:23:01PM -0400, Bobby Powers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > spin_is_locked always returns 0 on non-SMP systems, which causes btrfs
> > to fail the mount. ÂThere is documentation pending as to why checking
>
> I guess I should be explicit in stating that this is a regression, so
> this patch or something else that addresses it should be pulled into
> 3.4.

Yes, this is a regression and spin_is_locked() definitely has to go. I
don't have a strong opinion on this assert, if there are objections to
v2 I'm OK with ripping that BUG_ON entirely and replacing it with a
comment (this function and its callers are WIP).

Thanks,

Ilya
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