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

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:52:04AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 09:43:04PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > 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].
> 
> Sure, I'll give it a test. But it's so hard to reproduce, I need long enough
> time to prove "the panic's gone".
> 
> BTW, should I only merge this single patch to test, or merge your whole patchset
> with 13 patches?

Just this one patch.

--D

> Thanks,
> Zorro
> 
> > 
> > [0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203947
> > 
> >   Luis