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When looking at an event trace recently, I noticed that non-blocking buffer lookup attempts would fail on cached locked buffers and then run the slow cache-miss path. This means we are doing an xfs_buf allocation, lookup and free unnecessarily every time we avoid blocking on a locked buffer. Fix this by changing _xfs_buf_find() to return an error status to the caller to indicate that we failed the lock attempt rather than just returning a NULL. This allows the higher level code to discriminate between a cache miss and an cache hit that we failed to lock. This also allows us to return a -EFSCORRUPTED state if we are asked to look up a block number outside the range of the filesystem in _xfs_buf_find(), which moves us one step closer to being able to handle such errors in a more graceful manner at the higher levels. Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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