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authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2007-02-12 00:51:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-12 09:48:27 -0800
commit33a266dda9fbbe72dd978a451a8ee33c59da5e9c (patch)
tree7e3fa4100e436f12b4c0ed562dd1f6dc9ec84fd4 /fs/xfs
parent42da9cbd3eedde33a42acc2cb06f454814cf5de0 (diff)
[PATCH] Make BH_Unwritten a first class bufferhead flag V2
Currently, XFS uses BH_PrivateStart for flagging unwritten extent state in a bufferhead. Recently, I found the long standing mmap/unwritten extent conversion bug, and it was to do with partial page invalidation not clearing the unwritten flag from bufferheads attached to the page but beyond EOF. See here for a full explaination: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00196.html The solution I have checked into the XFS dev tree involves duplicating code from block_invalidatepage to clear the unwritten flag from the bufferhead(s), and then calling block_invalidatepage() to do the rest. Christoph suggested that this would be better solved by pushing the unwritten flag into the common buffer head flags and just adding the call to discard_buffer(): http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-12/msg00239.html The following patch makes BH_Unwritten a first class citizen. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h10
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h
index 2b0e0018738..715adad7dd4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h
@@ -109,16 +109,6 @@
#undef HAVE_PERCPU_SB /* per cpu superblock counters are a 2.6 feature */
#endif
-/*
- * State flag for unwritten extent buffers.
- *
- * We need to be able to distinguish between these and delayed
- * allocate buffers within XFS. The generic IO path code does
- * not need to distinguish - we use the BH_Delay flag for both
- * delalloc and these ondisk-uninitialised buffers.
- */
-BUFFER_FNS(PrivateStart, unwritten);
-
#define restricted_chown xfs_params.restrict_chown.val
#define irix_sgid_inherit xfs_params.sgid_inherit.val
#define irix_symlink_mode xfs_params.symlink_mode.val