linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 11/18] Revert "ext4: remove no longer used functions in inode.c"

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Message-ID: <20130418220851.GB19244@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:08:51 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/18] Revert "ext4: remove no longer used functions
 in inode.c"

On Tue 09-04-13 11:14:20, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> This reverts commit ccb4d7af914e0fe9b2f1022f8ea6c300463fd5e6.
> 
> This commit reintroduces functions ext4_block_truncate_page() and
> ext4_block_zero_page_range() which has been previously removed in favour
> of ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers().
> 
> In future commits we want to reintroduce those function and remove
> ext4_discard_partial_page_buffers() since it is duplicating some code
> and also partially duplicating work of truncate_pagecache_range(),
> moreover the old implementation was much clearer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
  When checking the functions, I've noticed one thing:

> +	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
> +		BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "get write access");
> +		err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);
> +		if (err)
> +			goto unlock;
> +	}
> +
> +	zero_user(page, offset, length);
> +
> +	BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "zeroed end of block");
> +
> +	err = 0;
> +	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
> +		err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, bh);
> +	} else
> +		mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
  I think we should call also ext4_jbd2_file_inode() in data=ordered mode.
Otherwise a crash after the truncate transaction has committed could still
result in the tail of the block not being zeroed on disk...

								Honza
> +
> +unlock:
> +	unlock_page(page);
> +	page_cache_release(page);
> +	return err;
> +}
> +
>  int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inode)
>  {
>  	if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6
> 
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