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Commit 209ecbb8 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: remove stale comment and logic from btrfs_inode_in_log()

Currently btrfs_inode_in_log() checks the list of modified extents of the
inode, and has a comment mentioning why, as it used to be necessary to
make sure if we did something like the following:

  mmap write range A
  mmap write range B
  msync range A (ranged fsync)
  msync range B (ranged fsync)

we ended up with both ranges being logged.

If we did not check it, then the second fsync would do nothing because
btrfs_inode_in_log() would return true. This was added in 125c4cf9
("Btrfs: set inode's logged_trans/last_log_commit after ranged fsync") and
test case generic/325 from fstests exercises that scenario.

However, as of commit 48778179

 ("btrfs: make fast fsyncs wait only
for writeback"), every ranged fsync is now turned into a full ranged fsync
(operates on the range from 0 to LLONG_MAX), so it is now pointless to
test of emptiness of the list of modified extents, and the comment is
clearly outdated.

So just remove the comment and list emptiness check, while also changing
the function's return type to be a boolean instead of an integer.
In case one day we get support for ranged fsyncs again, it will be easy
to notice the check is necessary again, because it will make generic/325
always fail.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent bc0939fc
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