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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:18:07 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: cmm@...ibm.com, tytso@....edu, sandeen@...hat.com,
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Return error if we fail to allocate block in
noalloc_get_block_write
On Wed 01-07-09 15:26:36, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:16:15PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > block_write_full_page consider a zero return from get_block as success.
> > noalloc_get_block_write returned zero even if we failed to find a mapping
> > blocks. Returning non zero ensures we fallback to the error handling path
> > of block_write_full_page which would properly redirty the page after
> > the below patch is applied.
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/33145
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >
> > NOTE: I am not sure whether -EGAIN is the right error to be returned error.
> > This patch should enable us to push the pending ext4 patches in the patch
> > queue without depending on the full series from Jan. Will reply to this
> > email with patch ordering.
> >
> > fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > index 25638bc..6c814af 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> > @@ -2514,7 +2514,10 @@ static int noalloc_get_block_write(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock,
> > if (ret > 0) {
> > bh_result->b_size = (ret << inode->i_blkbits);
> > ret = 0;
> > - }
> > + } else if (create && ret == 0)
> > + /* write request on unmapped buffer head. */
> > + ret = -EAGAIN;
> > +
> > return ret;
> > }
> >
>
> The patch ordering I tested this with was
> + stable-boundary
> + stable-boundary-undo.patch
> + jan-kara-dont-clear-dirty-bits-in-block_write_full_page
> + dont-look-at-buffer_heads-outside-i_size
> + fix-mmap-truncate-race-with-subpage-blocksize
> + 01.patch <=============================================== This is the above patch
> + fix-mmap-truncate-race-with-nondelalloc
> + move-__ext4_journaled-writepage-function
> + add-WARN_ON-with-unmapped-dirty-bh-in-writepage
> + vfs-jan-kara-page_mkwrite-infrastructure
> + allocate-blocks-correctly-with-subpage-blocksize
> > jan-kara-unmap-underlying-metadata-of-new-buffers-only-when-mapped
>
> Now with jan-kara-dont-clear-dirty-bits-in-block_write_full_page
> block_write_full_page will redirty the page when get_block fails. That
> would ensure that we don't drop the pages if we find unmapped
> buffer_heads in the writepage callback. The patch
> fix-mmap-truncate-race-with-subpage-blocksize actually pass pages with
> unmapped buffer heads to block_write_full_page.
>
> This also means we can push patches upto
> move-__ext4_journaled-writepage-function to upstream in 2.6.31
>
> I am yet to run the full patch set on ABAT. So the patches had limited
> testing.
Yes, this looks as a good solution to me since Nick had some objections
to later patches in my patchset so they probably won't get merged for
2.6.31...
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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