linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] ext4: add discard/zeroout flags to journal flush

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 21:36:39 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] ext4: add discard/zeroout flags to journal flush

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 03:13:25PM +0000, Leah Rumancik wrote:
> Add a flags argument to jbd2_journal_flush to enable discarding or
> zero-filling the journal blocks while flushing the journal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@...il.com>
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - restructured code division between patches
> - changed jbd2_journal_flush flags arg from bool to unsigned long long
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - changed jbd2_journal_flush flags to unsigned int
> - changed name of jbd2_journal_flush flags from JBD2_ERASE* to
> JBD2_JOURNAL_FLUSH*
> - cleaned up loop in jbd2_journal_erase which finds contiguous regions
> - updated flag checking
> ---

I noticed a minor issue in this commit, and so I've made the following
change to this commit in the ext4 tree.

	       	       	      	     	  - Ted

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 521ce41c242c..3a2ed60ea8b7 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -1715,7 +1715,7 @@ static int __jbd2_journal_erase(journal_t *journal, unsigned int flags)
 	if (!q)
 		return -ENXIO;
 
-	if (JBD2_JOURNAL_FLUSH_DISCARD & !blk_queue_discard(q))
+	if ((flags & JBD2_JOURNAL_FLUSH_DISCARD) && !blk_queue_discard(q))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	/*