linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ext4: fix COLLAPSE_RANGE failure issue on ext4 with 1KB block size

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Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:36:41 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ext4: fix COLLAPSE_RANGE failure issue on ext4
 with 1KB block size

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:50:37PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
> 
> When formatting with 1KB or 2KB(not aligned with PAGE SIZE) block size,
> xfstests generic/075 and 091 are failing. The offset supplied to function
> truncate_pagecache_range is block size aligned. In this function start offset
> is re-aligned to PAGE_SIZE by rounding_up to the next page boundary.
> Due to this rounding up, old data remains in the page cache when blocksize is
> less than page size and start offset is not aligned with page size.
> In case of collapse range, we need to align start offset to page size boundary
> by doing a round down operation instead of round up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@...sung.com>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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