Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

[Nick Piggin]

Steven Whitehouse wrote:

> > Hmm, doesn't look like we can do this either because at least GFS2
> > uses BH_New for its own special things.
>
> What makes you say that? As far as I know we are not doing anything we
> shouldn't with this flag, and if we are, then I'm quite happy to
> consider fixing it up so that we don't,

Bad wording. Many other filesystems seem to only make use of buffer_new
between prepare and commit_write.

gfs2 seems to at least test it in a lot of places, so it is hard to know
whether we can change the current semantics or not. I didn't mean that
gfs2 is doing anything wrong.

So can we clear it in commit_write?

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