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iomap_zero_range() uses buffered writes for manual zeroing, no longer updates i_size for such writes, but is still explicitly called for post-eof ranges. The historical use case for this is zeroing post-eof speculative preallocation on extending writes from XFS. However, XFS also recently changed to convert all post-eof delalloc mappings to unwritten in the iomap_begin() handler, which means it now never expects manual zeroing of post-eof mappings. In other words, all post-eof mappings should be reported as holes or unwritten. This is a subtle dependency that can be hard to detect if violated because associated codepaths are likely to update i_size after folio locks are dropped, but before writeback happens to occur. For example, if XFS reverts back to some form of manual zeroing of post-eof blocks on write extension, writeback of those zeroed folios will now race with the presumed i_size update from the subsequent buffered write. Since iomap_zero_range() can't correctly zero post-eof mappings beyond EOF without updating i_size, warn if this ever occurs. This serves as minimal indication that if this use case is reintroduced by a filesystem, iomap_zero_range() might need to reconsider i_size updates for write extending use cases. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241115145931.535207-1-bfoster@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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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 reStructuredText 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.