linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/25] fs: Make page_mkwrite_check

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Date:   Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:26:33 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/25] fs: Make page_mkwrite_check_truncate thp-aware

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 06:44:19PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:18:31PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> > 
> > If the page is compound, check the appropriate indices and return the
> > appropriate sizes.
> 
> Is it guarnteed that the page is never called on tail page?

I think so.  page_mkwrite_check_truncate() is only called on pages
which belong to a particular filesystem.  Only filesystems which have
the FS_LARGE_PAGES flag set will have compound pages allocated in the
page cache for their files.  As filesystems are converted, they will
only see large head pages.

I'll happily put in a VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page), page); to ensure we
don't screw that up.