What should to do with ASSERT failed

[Eric Sandeen]

Mike Gao wrote:
> Thanks very much for help. The kernel is pretty old, 2.6.19 but the xfs
> is pretty new.
> the block size is 512 and use mmap for test with write and read compare.
> (xfstest 074).
> 
> If I ignored this ASSERT(comment out), the test will failed. I guess
> because some pages never written to disk.
> 

FWIW, in your case, if you are not expecting to do IO like test 194
then maybe you'd be better off w/o this patch if it's causing problems
in more normal IO patterns ...

-Eric