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From: Jeff Mahoney on 16 Apr 2010 18:20
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On 04/16/2010 05:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> And while we're there...
>
> This might make reiserfs explode.
> We can remove __wait_on_buffer() altogether now. For some strange reason
> reiserfs calls __wait_on_buffer() directly. Maybe it's passing in
> zero-ref buffers. If so, we'll get warnings now and shall need to look at
> that.

I don't think that's the case. I think reiserfs just calls
__wait_on_buffer just to skip the duplicate buffer_locked() test since
every call is in an "if buffer_locked()" block. I don't think it's
passing in zero-ref buffers anywhere, and I'd prefer it to explode if it is.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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