Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 3 authors, 2012-08-21

Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] xfs: Introduce a helper routine to probe data or hole offset from page cache

From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Date: 2012-08-20 23:08:37

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:31:11AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
On 08/13/12 08:07, Jeff Liu wrote:
quoted
helper routine to lookup data or hole offset from page cache for unwritten extents.

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu<redacted>

---
 fs/xfs/xfs_file.c |  213 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+STATIC bool
+xfs_find_get_desired_pgoff(
+	struct inode		*inode,
+	struct xfs_bmbt_irec	*map,
+	unsigned int		type,
+	loff_t			*offset)
+{
...
quoted
+		for (i = 0; i<  nr_pages; i++) {
+			struct page	*page = pvec.pages[i];
+			loff_t		b_offset;
+
+			/*
+			 * Page index is out of range, searching done.
+			 * If the current offset is not reaches the end
+			 * of the specified search range, there should
+			 * be a hole between them.
+			 */
+			if (page->index>  end) {
Shouldn't this sample of the index also be locked?
You can check it before the page is locked for being beyond EOF, but
it still needs to be checked again after the page is locked as it
can change between this check and the page being locked.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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