summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/fs/buffer.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2007-02-12 00:51:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-12 09:48:27 -0800
commit33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c (patch)
tree7e3fa4100e436f12b4c0ed562dd1f6dc9ec84fd4 /fs/buffer.c
parent42da9cbd3eedde33a42acc2cb06f454814cf5de0 (diff)
downloadlinux-stable-33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c.tar.gz
linux-stable-33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c.tar.bz2
linux-stable-33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c.zip
[PATCH] Make BH_Unwritten a first class bufferhead flag V2
Currently, XFS uses BH_PrivateStart for flagging unwritten extent state in a bufferhead. Recently, I found the long standing mmap/unwritten extent conversion bug, and it was to do with partial page invalidation not clearing the unwritten flag from bufferheads attached to the page but beyond EOF. See here for a full explaination: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00196.html The solution I have checked into the XFS dev tree involves duplicating code from block_invalidatepage to clear the unwritten flag from the bufferhead(s), and then calling block_invalidatepage() to do the rest. Christoph suggested that this would be better solved by pushing the unwritten flag into the common buffer head flags and just adding the call to discard_buffer(): http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00239.html The following patch makes BH_Unwritten a first class citizen. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 7ff6e9346fae..a4b824234fb9 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1440,6 +1440,7 @@ static void discard_buffer(struct buffer_head * bh)
clear_buffer_req(bh);
clear_buffer_new(bh);
clear_buffer_delay(bh);
+ clear_buffer_unwritten(bh);
unlock_buffer(bh);
}
@@ -1823,6 +1824,7 @@ static int __block_prepare_write(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
continue;
}
if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh) &&
+ !buffer_unwritten(bh) &&
(block_start < from || block_end > to)) {
ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh);
*wait_bh++=bh;
@@ -2544,7 +2546,7 @@ int block_truncate_page(struct address_space *mapping,
if (PageUptodate(page))
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
- if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh)) {
+ if (!buffer_uptodate(bh) && !buffer_delay(bh) && !buffer_unwritten(bh)) {
err = -EIO;
ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh);
wait_on_buffer(bh);