Re: [PATCH v4] ext4:Let ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() handle blocks before request range correctly.

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:02:58PM +0800, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> To get delayed-extent information, ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() looks up
> pagecache, it thus collects information starting from a page's
> head block.
> 
> If blocksize < pagesize, the beginning blocks of a page may lies
> before the request range. So ext4_ext_fiemap_cb() should proceed
> ignoring them, because they has been handled before. If no mapped
> buffer in the range is found in the 1st page, we need to look up
> the 2nd page, otherwise delayed-extents after a hole will be ignored.
> 
> Without this patch, xfstests 225 will hung on ext4 with 1K block.
> 
> Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, added to the ext4 tree.

					- Ted
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