Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] Btrfs: remove unused check of skip_locking

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On 28.05.2018 17:21, David Sterba wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:27:50PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2018年05月18日 11:00, Liu Bo wrote:
>>> The check is superfluous since all of callers who set search_for_commit
>>> also have skip_locking set.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Although more obvious comment about search_commit_root and skip_locking
>> in ctree.h will be much better.
> 
> Not only a comment but also an ASSERT, this is too easy to get wrong.
> That all currenct callers do search_commit_root + skip_locking will not
> catch any future callers. And there was an example reported.

How about my initial suggestion of setting skip)_locking in
btrfs_search_slot if we see commit_root set? Let's try and make the life
of callers as easier as possible.
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