From: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
hch@infradead.org, david@fromorbit.com, darrick.wong@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/12] ext4: iomap that extends beyond EOF should be marked dirty
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:49:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191022014917.GB5092@athena.bobrowski.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191021132818.GB25184@quack2.suse.cz>
On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 03:28:18PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 21-10-19 20:17:46, Matthew Bobrowski wrote:
> > This patch is effectively addressed what Dave Chinner had found and
> > fixed within this commit: 8a23414ee345. Justification for needing this
> > modification has been provided below:
> >
> > When doing a direct IO that spans the current EOF, and there are
> > written blocks beyond EOF that extend beyond the current write, the
> > only metadata update that needs to be done is a file size extension.
> >
> > However, we don't mark such iomaps as IOMAP_F_DIRTY to indicate that
> > there is IO completion metadata updates required, and hence we may
> > fail to correctly sync file size extensions made in IO completion when
> > O_DSYNC writes are being used and the hardware supports FUA.
> >
> > Hence when setting IOMAP_F_DIRTY, we need to also take into account
> > whether the iomap spans the current EOF. If it does, then we need to
> > mark it dirty so that IO completion will call generic_write_sync() to
> > flush the inode size update to stable storage correctly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
>
> Looks good to me. You could possibly also comment in the changelog that
> currently, this change doesn't have user visible impact for ext4 as none of
> current users of ext4_iomap_begin() that extend files depend of
> IOMAP_F_DIRTY.
Sure, I will add this.
> Also this patch would make slightly more sense to be before 1/12 so that
> you don't have there those two strange unused arguments. But these are just
> small nits.
You're right. I will rearrange it in v6 so that this patch comes
first.
> Feel free to add:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thanks Jan!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-22 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-21 9:17 [PATCH v5 00/12] ext4: port direct I/O to iomap infrastructure Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] ext4: move set iomap routines into separate helper ext4_set_iomap() Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:23 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-23 6:31 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-10-23 10:14 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] ext4: iomap that extends beyond EOF should be marked dirty Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:28 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-22 1:49 ` Matthew Bobrowski [this message]
2019-10-23 6:35 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-10-23 10:20 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] ext4: split IOMAP_WRITE branch in ext4_iomap_begin() into helper Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:31 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-23 6:37 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] ext4: introduce new callback for IOMAP_REPORT Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:37 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-22 1:55 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-23 6:39 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-10-23 10:35 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] iomap: Allow forcing of waiting for running DIO in iomap_dio_rw() mbobrowski
2019-10-24 1:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-24 11:17 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] xfs: Use iomap_dio_rw_wait() mbobrowski
2019-10-21 13:38 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] ext4: introduce direct I/O read using iomap infrastructure Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:41 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-22 1:58 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-23 6:40 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] ext4: update direct I/O read to do trylock in IOCB_NOWAIT cases Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:48 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-22 2:04 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-22 7:50 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-23 6:51 ` Ritesh Harjani
2019-10-21 9:18 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] ext4: move inode extension/truncate code out from ->iomap_end() callback Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:53 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-22 2:07 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:20 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 16:18 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-22 3:02 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-22 7:55 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-21 9:20 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] ext4: reorder map->m_flags checks in ext4_set_iomap() Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 9:20 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] ext4: move inode extension check out from ext4_iomap_alloc() Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-21 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] ext4: port direct I/O to iomap infrastructure Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-10-21 19:43 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-21 22:38 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-22 8:01 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-23 2:35 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-23 10:01 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-23 10:11 ` Matthew Bobrowski
2019-10-24 1:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-24 11:09 ` Matthew Bobrowski
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