linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 03/11] vfs: Add better VFS support for page

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 18:40:00 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	npiggin@...e.de, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] vfs: Add better VFS support for page_mkwrite when
	blocksize < pagesize

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:03:41AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 03:01:00PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >
> 
> Sorry, another possibly braindead question.  When we extend the i_size you make
> it so that the page will be faulted the next time it's written to via
> page_mkclean, which from what I can tell is done via pte_wrprotect.  The problem
> with this is the next time we write to the page, we do pte_mkwrite, which makes
> it so that we won't fault the next time we write, correct?  So if I were to do
> 
> ftruncate(fd, 0);
> pwrite(fd, buf, 1024, 0);
> map = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
> map[0] = 'a';
> ftruncate(fd, 10000);
> map[0] = 'b'; --> causes a page fault again


This will do block allocation for the entire page within i_size. (ie multiple blocks)
ext4_page_mkwrite have

size = i_size_read(..)
if (page->index == size >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)
	len = size & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
else
	len = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;


> memset(map, 'a', 4096); --> wouldn't cause a pagefault
> writepage at some point
> 
> We'd still be in the position that you are trying to solve, correct, since we
> will have dirtied the rest of the page without calling mkwrite for the other
> sections of it, which would result in unallocated blocks when we hit writepage.
> Thanks,
> 

-aneesh
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