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Ojaswin Mujoo c6bfd72409 ext4: clarify handling of unwritten bh in __ext4_block_zero_page_range()
As an optimization, I was trying to work on exiting early from this
function if dealing with unwritten extent since they anyways read 0.
However, it was realised that there are certain code paths that can
end up calling ext4_block_zero_page_range() for an unwritten bh that
might still have data in pagecache. In this case, we can't exit early
and we do require to process the bh and zero out the pagecache to ensure
that a writeback can't kick in at a later time and flush the stale
pagecache to disk.

Since, adding the logic to exit early for unwritten bh was turning out
to be much more nuanced and the current code already handles it well,
just add a comment to explicitly document this behavior.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d859b7ae5fe42e6626479b91ed9f4da3aae4c597.1698856309.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
History 2024-01-04 23:28:47 -05:00
arch parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.7-rc3: 2023-11-26 09:59:39 -08:00
block vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes 2023-11-24 09:45:40 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation USB / PHY / Thunderbolt fixes and ids for 6.7-rc3 2023-11-25 18:22:42 -08:00
drivers USB / PHY / Thunderbolt fixes and ids for 6.7-rc3 2023-11-25 18:22:42 -08:00
fs ext4: clarify handling of unwritten bh in __ext4_block_zero_page_range() 2024-01-04 23:28:47 -05:00
include jbd2: increase the journal IO's priority 2023-11-30 23:27:39 -05:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
io_uring io_uring: fix off-by one bvec index 2023-11-20 15:21:38 -07:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel Fix lockdep block chain corruption resulting in KASAN warnings. 2023-11-26 08:30:11 -08:00
lib parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.7-rc3: 2023-11-26 09:59:39 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes 2023-11-24 09:45:40 -08:00
net tls: fix NULL deref on tls_sw_splice_eof() with empty record 2023-11-23 08:51:45 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples Landlock updates for v6.7-rc1 2023-11-03 09:28:53 -10:00
scripts scripts/checkstack.pl: match all stack sizes for s390 2023-11-22 15:06:23 +01:00
security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
sound sound fixes for 6.7-rc2 2023-11-17 09:05:31 -05:00
tools parisc architecture fixes for kernel v6.7-rc3: 2023-11-26 09:59:39 -08:00
usr arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture 2023-09-11 08:13:17 +00:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS eventfs fixes: 2023-11-26 19:48:20 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc3 2023-11-26 19:59:33 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.