Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph updates for 5.20-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 1:56 PM Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 10:04 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What's the point of warning about bogus folios more than once? That's
> > a debug warning - if it hits even once, that's already "uhhuh,
> > something is bad". Showing the warning more than once is likely just
> > going to cause more problems, not give you more information.
>
> Xiubo and Jeff used it to track down some issues between netfs library
> and folio code that have been randomly plaguing our automated tests for
> a couple of releases.  We already knew that there were issues in that
> area and the actual occurrences mattered.  This was done in cooperation
> with Willy and, since he was involved and this is a no-impact change,
> I didn't think twice.

I don't mind the warning.

I mind the "more than ONCE" part.

If it's a "this shouldn't happen, but if it ever happens I want to
know about it" situation, then the ONCE variant should be what you
want.

And that variant already existed, and adding a new and inferior macro
seems to just have been pointless.

As to dcache issues - if you really don't get an ack from Al, you can
at least make me aware of it before-hand. That's one of the files that
I at least personally care about, and while I would much prefer an ack
from Al for anything that touches it, at least I'll likely be less
unhappy about changes if I was made aware of them ahead of time,
instead of seeing a pull request that suddenly changes that file.

               Linus