Re: [PATCH 07/13] xfs: allow merging ioends over append boundaries

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:23:09AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:48:30PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There is no real problem merging ioends that go beyond i_size into an
> > ioend that doesn't.  We just need to move the append transaction to the
> > base ioend.  Also use the opportunity to use a real error code instead
> > of the magic 1 to cancel the transactions, and write a comment
> > explaining the scheme.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> 
> Reading through this patch, I have a feeling it fixes the crash that
> Zorro has been seeing occasionally with generic/475...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Zorro, can you confirm? If so it would be great to also refer to
the respective bugzilla entry #203947 [0].

[0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203947

  Luis