Re: [PATCH v3] iomap: support tail packing inline read

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:11:49AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 05:13:10PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 04:02:30PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > +	if (iomap->type == IOMAP_INLINE) {
> > > > +		iomap_read_inline_data(inode, page, iomap, pos);
> > > > +		plen = PAGE_SIZE - poff;
> > > > +		goto done;
> > > > +	}
> > > 
> > > This is going to break Andreas' case that he just patched to work.
> > > GFS2 needs for there to _not_ be an iop for inline data.  That's
> > > why I said we need to sort out when to create an iop before moving
> > > the IOMAP_INLINE case below the creation of the iop.
> > > 
> > > If we're not going to do that first, then I recommend leaving the
> > > IOMAP_INLINE case where it is and changing it to ...
> > > 
> > > 	if (iomap->type == IOMAP_INLINE)
> > > 		return iomap_read_inline_data(inode, page, iomap, pos);
> > > 
> > > ... and have iomap_read_inline_data() return the number of bytes that
> > > it copied + zeroed (ie PAGE_SIZE - poff).
> > 
> > Returning the bytes is much cleaner anyway.  But we still need to deal
> > with the sub-page uptodate status in one form or another.
> 
> There is another iomap_read_inline_data() caller as in:
> +static int iomap_write_begin_inline(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos,
> +		struct page *page, struct iomap *srcmap)
> +{
> +	/* needs more work for the tailpacking case, disable for now */
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pos != 0))
> +		return -EIO;
> +	if (PageUptodate(page))
> +		return 0;
> +	iomap_read_inline_data(inode, page, srcmap, pos);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> 
> I'd like to avoid it as (void)iomap_read_inline_data(...). That's why it
> left as void return type.

You don't need to cast away the return value in C.