[PATCH 1/2] xfs: use b_maps[] for discontiguous buffers
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
Thu Nov 22 19:32:34 CST 2012
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:41:21PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> This patch sets all the b_bmap accesses to be b_maps[0]. b_maps[0]
> works for single and multiple segment buffers.
>
> This fixes a bug where xfs_trans_buf_item_match() could not find a
> multi-segment buffer associated with the transaction because it was
> looking for the block number in the single segment location
> b_map.bm.bn rather than the new generic b_maps[0].bm.bn. This
> resulted in recursive buffer lock that can never be satisfied.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>
Looks good, though I agree with Christoph that renaming b_map to
__b_map would be a good idea to prevent future confusion.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com
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