linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 22/22] XIP: Add support for unwritten extents

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Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1401221546240.70541@scrumpy>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:51:56 -0700 (MST)
From:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 22/22] XIP: Add support for unwritten extents

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

>  static ssize_t xip_io(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec
> *iov,
>  			loff_t start, loff_t end, unsigned nr_segs,
>  			get_block_t get_block, struct buffer_head *bh)
> @@ -103,21 +109,29 @@ static ssize_t xip_io(int rw, struct inode *inode,
> const struct iovec *iov,
>  			retval = get_block(inode, block, bh, rw == WRITE);
>  			if (retval)
>  				break;
> -			if (buffer_mapped(bh)) {
> -				retval = xip_get_addr(inode, bh, &addr);
> -				if (retval < 0)
> -					break;
> -				addr += offset - (block << inode->i_blkbits);
> -				hole = false;
> -				size = retval;
> -			} else {
> -				if (rw == WRITE) {
> +			if (rw == WRITE) {
> +				if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
>  					retval = -EIO;
>  					break;
>  				}
> +				hole = false;
> +			} else {
> +				hole = !buffer_written(bh);
> +			}
> +
> +			if (hole) {
>  				addr = NULL;
> -				hole = true;
>  				size = bh->b_size;
> +			} else {
> +				unsigned first;
> +				retval = xip_get_addr(inode, bh, &addr);
> +				if (retval < 0)
> +					break;
> +				size = retval;
> +				first = offset - (block << inode->i_blkbits);
> +				if (buffer_unwritten(bh))
> +					memset(addr, 0, first);
> +				addr += first;

+                               size -= first;

This is needed so that we don't overrun the XIP buffer we are given in the
event that our user buffer >= our XIP buffer and the start of our I/O isn't
block aligned.

You can add my 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com> 

Thanks,
- Ross
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