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Message-ID: <d342be4b-e83b-47e0-8d45-9621900e15bf@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 15:41:21 +0000
From: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
To: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
Cc: hch@....de, djwong@...nel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org,
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        p.raghav@...sung.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] fs: iomap: Atomic write support

On 05/02/2024 15:20, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 02:26:40PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> Add flag IOMAP_ATOMIC_WRITE to indicate to the FS that an atomic write
>> bio is being created and all the rules there need to be followed.
>>
>> It is the task of the FS iomap iter callbacks to ensure that the mapping
>> created adheres to those rules, like size is power-of-2, is at a
>> naturally-aligned offset, etc. However, checking for a single iovec, i.e.
>> iter type is ubuf, is done in __iomap_dio_rw().
>>
>> A write should only produce a single bio, so error when it doesn't.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/iomap/direct-io.c  | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   fs/iomap/trace.h      |  3 ++-
>>   include/linux/iomap.h |  1 +
>>   3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
>> index bcd3f8cf5ea4..25736d01b857 100644
>> --- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
>> +++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
>> @@ -275,10 +275,12 @@ static inline blk_opf_t iomap_dio_bio_opflags(struct iomap_dio *dio,
>>   static loff_t iomap_dio_bio_iter(const struct iomap_iter *iter,
>>   		struct iomap_dio *dio)
>>   {
>> +	bool atomic_write = iter->flags & IOMAP_ATOMIC;
> 
> Minor nit: the commit says IOMAP_ATOMIC_WRITE and you set the enum as
> IOMAP_ATOMIC in the code.

Thanks for spotting this

> 
> As the atomic semantics only apply to write, the commit could be just
> reworded to reflect the code?

Yes, so I was advised to change IOMAP_ATOMIC_WRITE  -> IOMAP_ATOMIC, as 
this flag is just a write modifier. I just didn't update the commit message.

Thanks,
John

> 
> <snip>
>> diff --git a/fs/iomap/trace.h b/fs/iomap/trace.h
>> index c16fd55f5595..c95576420bca 100644
>> --- a/fs/iomap/trace.h
>> +++ b/fs/iomap/trace.h
>> @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ DEFINE_RANGE_EVENT(iomap_dio_rw_queued);
>>   	{ IOMAP_REPORT,		"REPORT" }, \
>>   	{ IOMAP_FAULT,		"FAULT" }, \
>>   	{ IOMAP_DIRECT,		"DIRECT" }, \
>> -	{ IOMAP_NOWAIT,		"NOWAIT" }
>> +	{ IOMAP_NOWAIT,		"NOWAIT" }, \
>> +	{ IOMAP_ATOMIC,		"ATOMIC" }
>>