linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 03/12] filemap: update ki_pos in generic_perform

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Message-ID: <20230828123259.GB11084@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:32:59 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com>,
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        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] filemap: update ki_pos in generic_perform_write

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 10:45:18PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> IOW, I suspect that the right thing to do would be something along the lines
> of

The idea looks sensible to me, but we'll also need to do it for the
filemap_write_and_wait_range failure case.