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Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 09:28:44 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To:     Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 7/8] fs/ext4: Introduce DAX inode flag
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On Sun 24-05-20 21:39:10, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 01:48:48PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > And then we should check conflicts with the journal flag as well, as I
> > mentioned in reply to the first patch. There it is more complicated by the
> > fact that we should disallow setting of both EXT4_INODE_DAX_FL and
> > EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL at the same time so the checks will be somewhat more
> > complicated.
> 
> I'm confused by jflag.  Why is EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL stored in jflag?

It isn't just EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL. It is:

	jflag = flags & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL;

so it is EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL if it should be set by the current ioctl and 0
otherwise. But I agree that since we mostly do

	(jflag ^ oldflags) & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL

jflags is mostly useless as we could do just

	(flags ^ oldflags) & EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL

I guess it's mostly a relict from the past...

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR