Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-08-17

[PATCH v2] ext4: allow DAX writeback for hole punch

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From: Ross Zwisler <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-17 18:23:28
Also in: linux-ext4, lkml, nvdimm
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

1 review trailer (1 from subsystem maintainers).

Currently when doing a DAX hole punch with ext4 we fail to do a writeback.
This is because the logic around filemap_write_and_wait_range() in
ext4_punch_hole() only looks for dirty page cache pages in the radix tree,
not for dirty DAX exceptional entries.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
This should be applied to stable kernels v4.5 and beyond.
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 3131747..0900cb4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3890,7 +3890,7 @@ int ext4_update_disksize_before_punch(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
 }
 
 /*
- * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releaseing the blocks
+ * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releasing the blocks
  * associated with the given offset and length
  *
  * @inode:  File inode
@@ -3919,7 +3919,7 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
 	 * Write out all dirty pages to avoid race conditions
 	 * Then release them.
 	 */
-	if (mapping->nrpages && mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) {
+	if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) {
 		ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, offset,
 						   offset + length - 1);
 		if (ret)
-- 
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