linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/1] iomap: Direct I/O for inline data

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:01:48 +0200
From:   Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     cluster-devel <cluster-devel@...hat.com>,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] iomap: Direct I/O for inline data

On 29 June 2018 at 10:43, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
>> A possible fix is to change the alignment check in iomap_dio_actor as follows:
>>
>> -       if ((pos | length | align) & ((1 << blkbits) - 1))
>> +       if ((pos | align) & ((1 << blkbits) - 1))
>> +               return -EINVAL;
>> +       if (length & ((1 << blkbits) - 1) &&
>> +           pos + length != iomap->offset + iomap->length)
>>                 return -EINVAL;
>>
>> Moving the alignment check from iomap_dio_actor to iomap_dio_rw isn't
>> that easy because iomap->bdev isn't known there.
>
> Just make the check conditional on iomap->type != IOMAP_INLINE
> as alignment checks on inline data don't make much sense.

Yeah, probably.

Thanks,
Andreas