Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Misc volume patch set part2

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On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 01:53:18PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
> The patch set (2/3 and 3/3) adds helper function to deduce the num_device
> (which is the number of the devices when device is mounted, this excludes
> the seed device however includes the replacing target). We need to know
> the num_device that actually belongs to the FSID without the replacing
> target (if it exists) when we are balancing and or when we are trying to
> device delete. In both of these cases, it would be wrong to consider
> replacing target when reallocating the blockgroups.
> 
> This patch as such does not change any of the logic which is already in
> the original code, but instead it would bring such a logic at two
> locations into a single place/function. But to do that as these two
> location uses either WARN_ON or BUG_ON to perform the safety catch so
> the first patch does the cleanup and uses ASSERT at both of these
> places. And now since these two sections of codes are identical, the 2nd
> patch replaces them into a helper function.
> 
> Also though the check for num_device > 0 should actually be num_device >
> 1 OR instead, the check of num_device > 0 should have been after the
> num_device--,

I updated the patch following that logic now.

> since we have had already too many comments and added
> confusions, I shall leave that part to be fixed at sometime later. So
> that the cleanup here is a really a cleanup instead of chaning the
> logic in a rough scale.
> 
> Last but not least, this patch has gone through a lot of comments on
> either to use BUG or return -EINVAL for accidental fall of num_device
> below 1, which I wasn't expecting so much of the concerns about
> the use of BUG_ON/-EINVAL as its trivial because fundamentally a FS
> can't be in the mounted state when num_device < 1.
> 
> 
> Anand Jain (3):
>   btrfs: drop uuid_mutex in btrfs_free_extra_devids()
>   btrfs: assert for num_devices below 0
>   btrfs: add helper btrfs_num_devices() to deduce num_devices

Patches 2 and 3 are applied, with some adjustments. The first patch
needs another round of review as there were many changes regarding the
device locking and uuid_mutex. I need a break from this code as the
wounds haven't healed yet, but will add the patch to a topic branch to
next so I don't forget about it.



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