linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] generic/1229: Stress fsx with atomic writes enabled

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Message-ID: <aICBYrgdwZUcm2C7@li-dc0c254c-257c-11b2-a85c-98b6c1322444.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:00:48 +0530
From: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
Cc: Zorro Lang <zlang@...hat.com>, fstests@...r.kernel.org,
        Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>, john.g.garry@...cle.com,
        tytso@....edu, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] generic/1229: Stress fsx with atomic writes
 enabled

On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 09:22:30AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 07:42:50PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> > Stress file with atomic writes to ensure we excercise codepaths
> > where we are mixing different FS operations with atomic writes
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Hrm, doesn't generic/521 test this already if the fs happens to support
> atomic writes?
> 
> --D

Hi Darrick,

Yes but I wanted one with _require_scratch_write_atomic and writes going
to SCRATCH fs to explicitly test atomic writes as that can get missed in
g/521. 

Would you instead prefer to have those changes in g/521?

Regards,
Ojaswin