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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>, Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: warning for EOPNOTSUPP vfs_copy_file_range
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 07:39:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxizvWk-=JW=s-WXw0OGR3Wjm2YYkpwQqXHc27U=iRtQDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YocRWLtlbokO0jsi@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 6:56 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 04:53:15PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>
> > Luis gave up on it, because no maintainer stepped up to take
> > the patch, but I think that is the right way to go.
> >
> > Maybe this bug report can raise awareness to that old patch.
> >
> > Al, could you have a look?
>
> IIRC, you had objections to that variant back then...

Right. But not about the "main" patch.
The patch had an "also" part:

The short-circuit code for the case where the copy length is zero has also
been dropped from the VFS code.  This is because a zero size copy between
two files shall provide a clear indication on whether or not the
filesystem supports non-zero copies.

-     if (len == 0)
-         return 0;
-

Which would have been a regression for nfs client, because
nfs protocol treats length 0 from ->copy_file_range() as "copy everything":

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxgwcNwWEqYKBg3fMHD3aXOsYUmPeexBe9EVP9Nb53b-Hw@mail.gmail.com/

This api impedance should be fixed in the nfs client, but I'm
not sure if that was already done.

I will test and re-post Luis' patch without removing the short-circuit
unless Luis gets to it first.

BTW, IIRC, there were already LTP tests and man page fixes posted for
the copt_file_range() behavior change.

Thanks,
Amir.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-20  4:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-19  8:22 warning for EOPNOTSUPP vfs_copy_file_range He Zhe
2022-05-19 13:53 ` Amir Goldstein
2022-05-19 14:31   ` Luís Henriques
2022-05-20  3:03     ` He Zhe
2022-05-20  4:42       ` Amir Goldstein
2022-05-20  3:16     ` Paul Gortmaker
2022-05-20  3:56   ` Al Viro
2022-05-20  4:39     ` Amir Goldstein [this message]
2022-05-20  7:52       ` Amir Goldstein

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