Hi Michael,
On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 08:34:41AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Piling workarounds on top of workarounds is no good for these code
> paths. They just become more complicated to think about long-term.
Fair enough. The patch grew by adding each condition as it came up in
the thread, not from a clear account of when that hint is safe to
set, and Zhijie's race shows how fragile that is. I'll withdraw it.
Your commit fixes the reported case. If I come back to the second
spot, it will start from that account, not from another variant.
Manu